We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you change the environment, you change the people.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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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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