Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERArchitects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Doing more with less.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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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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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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