Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERPollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Television is the third parent.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Never show unfinished work.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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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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