Man knows so much and does so little.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll sports are time control demonstrations.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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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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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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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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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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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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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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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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