Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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I look for what needs to be done
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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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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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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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.
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