And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERI am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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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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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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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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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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