We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERCoping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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I look for what needs to be done
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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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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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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