To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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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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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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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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