Some of us are just less damaged than others.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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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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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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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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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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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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