Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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The 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.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Never show unfinished work.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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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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