There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERObservation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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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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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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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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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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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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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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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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