When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSearch others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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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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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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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.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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I look for what needs to be done
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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