Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDon’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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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.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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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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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 the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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