Our power is in our ability to decide.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERA problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Never show unfinished work.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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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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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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You can’t learn less.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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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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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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