There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWar is the ultimate tool of politics.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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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 word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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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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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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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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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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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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