Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll sports are time control demonstrations.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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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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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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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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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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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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