For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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I look for what needs to be done
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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