Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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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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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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