Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDoing more with less.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Television is the third parent.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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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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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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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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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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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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