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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Needs Tasks Thinking
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Knows Plus Thinking
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inspirational Life People
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Fate Humanity Integrity
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Balance Lines Physics
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inspirational Integrity Success
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Men Unique