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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAnd never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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