There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERReal wealth is ideas plus energy.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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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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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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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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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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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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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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