How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTelevision is the third parent.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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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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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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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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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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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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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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