You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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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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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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