Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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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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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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