Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERTelevision is the third parent.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Doing more with less.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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