It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIntegrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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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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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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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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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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