The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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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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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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