People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEROur power is in our ability to decide.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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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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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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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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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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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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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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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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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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