People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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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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Television is the third parent.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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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?
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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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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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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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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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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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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