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….
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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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’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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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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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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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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