Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHowever, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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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.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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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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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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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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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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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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