R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes About Wisdom
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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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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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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 attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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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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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
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Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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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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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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