R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.
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That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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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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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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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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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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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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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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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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Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.
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Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.
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What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression
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War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.
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I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
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The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the
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Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.