Television is the third parent.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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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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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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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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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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You can’t learn less.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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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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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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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….
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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