Television is the third parent.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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 were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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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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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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