For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERFreeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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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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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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