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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERCorollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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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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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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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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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.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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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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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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