The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEROnly 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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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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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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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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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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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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