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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSpecialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Never show unfinished work.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Observation 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.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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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.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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