Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAmerican labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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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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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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