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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIn the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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 purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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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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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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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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