I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERRashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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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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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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