We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhen I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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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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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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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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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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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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