We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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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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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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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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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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