Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere 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.
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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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Television is the third parent.
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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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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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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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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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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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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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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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