Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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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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