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R Buckminster Fuller Inspirational Quotes (190)

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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Everyone is born a genius.
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Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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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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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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You can never learn less you can only learn more.
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Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
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Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.
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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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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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Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.
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I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.
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For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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