However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEROnly ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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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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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Some of us 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 word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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I look for what needs to be done
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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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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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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