We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTechnologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Television is the third parent.
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You can’t learn less.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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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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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Doing more with less.
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