For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you change the environment, you change the people.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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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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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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