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Men Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller
- We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things…
- Man knows so much and does so little.
- There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man.…
- Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
- If we design the environment properly, it will permit child and man to develop safely and to behave logically.
- Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .
- Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of…
- Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future…
- For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
- Don't change the man. Change his environment.
- Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
- Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate…
- Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
- Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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