Controlled time is our true wealth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREvery child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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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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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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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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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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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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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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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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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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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.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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