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 FULLERIt is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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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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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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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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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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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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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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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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Doing more with less.
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