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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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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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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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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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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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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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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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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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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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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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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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I look for what needs to be done
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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