Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAbove all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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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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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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