As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI look for what needs to be done
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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