To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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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 which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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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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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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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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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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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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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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