Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERControlled time is our true wealth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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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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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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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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