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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThink of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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