I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe 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.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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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 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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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