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.
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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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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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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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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