R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
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Don't fight forces, use them.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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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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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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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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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
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Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.