There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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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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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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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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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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