For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThese are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Never show unfinished work.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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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