Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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