Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe opposite of nature is impossible.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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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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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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