If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSpaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Above 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.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Doing more with less.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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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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Television is the third parent.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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