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R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Biography

Author Profession: Inventor
Nationality: American
Born: July 12, 1895
Died: July 1, 1983

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Man knows so much and does so little.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Don't fight forces, use them.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Truth is a tendency.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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