To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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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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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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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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[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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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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