Man knows so much and does so little.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Doing more with less.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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