Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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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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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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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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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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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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