We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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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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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Never show unfinished work.
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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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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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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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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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