Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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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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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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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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