Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Doing more with less.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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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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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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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.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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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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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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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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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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