To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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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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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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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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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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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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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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