It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTake 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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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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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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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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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Television is the third parent.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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