There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHistory’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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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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