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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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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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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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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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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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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 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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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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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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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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