People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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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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[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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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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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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American 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.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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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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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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