R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Diversity Fate Success
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Support War Wisdom
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Money People Want
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
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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Generalized Giving Mind Special
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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Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Acting Peace Venture
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
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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Children New Relationship Technology
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Humanity Overlapping Universe
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
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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Heart Integrity Self
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Eye Feel Good Philosophy
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Done Humans Instead Really Society
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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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
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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Child Children Newborn Years

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