The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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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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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Never show unfinished work.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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