Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe opposite of nature is impossible.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Television is the third parent.
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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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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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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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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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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 Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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