Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERPollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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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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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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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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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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