We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERReal wealth is ideas plus energy.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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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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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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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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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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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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