Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERPollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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 find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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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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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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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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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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