You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Television is the third parent.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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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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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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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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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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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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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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