We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERControlled time is our true wealth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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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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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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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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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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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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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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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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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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