We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERon first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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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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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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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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