As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERA problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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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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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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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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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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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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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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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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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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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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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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