Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERUniverse is plural at minimum sixfold.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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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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