Man knows so much and does so little.
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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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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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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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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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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