The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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 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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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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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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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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