Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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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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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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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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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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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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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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