It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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You can’t learn less.
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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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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Never show unfinished work.
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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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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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