I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDon’t change the man. Change his environment.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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I look for what needs to be done
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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