Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREveryone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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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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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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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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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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