Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSome of us are just less damaged than others.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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I look for what needs to be done
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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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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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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