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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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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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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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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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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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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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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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