Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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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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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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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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