Our power is in our ability to decide.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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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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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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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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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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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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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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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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You can’t learn less.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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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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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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