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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
R. Buckminster Fuller
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
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The impossible happens.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
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It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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...doing more with less.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Everyone is born a genius.
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You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper...depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.
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Everything we see is inside our own heads.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.
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There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
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