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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERFor man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I look for what needs to be done
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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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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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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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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of 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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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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