In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHow often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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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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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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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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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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