Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERMan knows so much and does so little.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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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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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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