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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSeeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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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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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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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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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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