And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERFor the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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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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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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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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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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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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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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