Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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.
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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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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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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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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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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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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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