If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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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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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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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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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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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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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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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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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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