For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEROur little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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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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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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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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