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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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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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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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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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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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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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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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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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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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You can’t learn less.
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