There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERGeodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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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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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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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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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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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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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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