You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERControlled time is our true wealth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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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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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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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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