For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER[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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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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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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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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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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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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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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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