It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHow often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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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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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Never show unfinished work.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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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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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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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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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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