To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSeeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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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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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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However, 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.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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