If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIn order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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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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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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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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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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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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