We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERPollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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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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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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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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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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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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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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