History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERReal wealth is ideas plus energy.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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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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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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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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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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