Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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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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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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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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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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