For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Never show unfinished work.
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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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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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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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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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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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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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It 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.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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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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