All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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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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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship 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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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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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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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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