Love is a metaphysical gravity.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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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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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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