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.
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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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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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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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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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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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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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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