In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Television is the third parent.
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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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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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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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