If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERFor 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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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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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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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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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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