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
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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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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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Doing more with less.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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