We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREveryone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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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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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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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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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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