We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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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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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Television is the third parent.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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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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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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