The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHe 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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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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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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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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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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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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