The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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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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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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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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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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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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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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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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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Television is the third parent.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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