You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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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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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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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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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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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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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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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.
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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 procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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Doing more with less.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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