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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThis 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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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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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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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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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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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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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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