Buckminster Fuller quotes - page 5

I find people only listen to you when they ask you to talk to them. (Buckminster Fuller)
Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions. View quote
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Corporations are neither physical nor metaphysical phenomena. They are socioeconomic ploys - legally enacted game-playing - agreed upon only between overwhelmingly powerful socioeconomic individuals and by them imposed upon human society and its all unwitting members. View quote
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. This is a powerful group of paired concepts generated by the complementarity of conceptuality. View quote
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I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform humans, being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less... View quote
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"Those whom God hath joined together let no one put asunder." To Anne Hewlett Fuller on this, our 63rd Wedding Anniversary and my 85 Birthday-July 12, 1980. View quote
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The effective decisions can only be made by the independently thinking and adequately informed human individuals and their telepathically intercommunicated wisdom--the wisdom of the majority of all such human individuals--qualifying for continuance in Universe as local cosmic problem-solvers--in love with the truth and in individually spontaneous self-commitment to absolute faith in the wisdom, integrity, and love of God, who seems to wish Earthian humans to survive. View quote
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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. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static. View quote
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The new human networks' emergence represents the natural evolutionary expansion into the just completed, thirty-years-in-its-buildings world-embracing, physical communications network. The new reorienting of human networking constitutes the heart-and-mind-pumped flow of life and intellect into the world arteries. View quote
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Each age is characterized by its own astronomical myriads of new, special-case experiences and problems to be stored in freshly born optimum capacity human brains - which storages in turn may disclose to human minds the presence of heretofore undiscovered, unsuspectedly existent eternal generalized principles. View quote
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Gravity is the inwardly cohering force acting integratively on all systems. Radiation is the outwardly disintegrating force acting divisively upon all systems. (Buckminster Fuller)
CALL ME TRIMTAB. View quote
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Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers. View quote
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The courage to cooperate or initiate are based entirely on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as the divine mind within you tells you the truth is. It really does require a courage and a self-disciplining to go along with that truth. View quote
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World Game finds that 60 percent of all the jobs in the U. S. A. are not producing any real wealth-i. e., real life support. They are in fear-underwriting industries or are checking-on-other-checkers, etc. View quote
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There is nothing that a single massive sphere will or can ever do by itself that says it will both exert and yield attractively with a neighboring massive sphere and that it yields progressively: every time the distance between the two is halved, the attraction will be fourfolded. This unpredicted, only mutual behavior is synergy. View quote
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Synergy means behavior of integral, aggregate, whole systems unpredicted by behaviors of any of their components or subassemblies of their components taken separately from the whole. View quote
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They are not multi-national, but supra-national - above nations. They don't need any passports. They can go in and out of countries without permission from anyone. View quote
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But it can hardly be read in a week. It takes some study. View quote
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Critical Path is a way to dig yourself out from all that misinformation. View quote
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Science... the ways it does its calculating that approximately nobody going in at a basic level can gain any sense of the whole. (Buckminster Fuller)
The young world is giving up any interest in their political system. They have decided that it is absolutely corrupt. View quote
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That's the basis of all politics: it has to be you or me, there's not enough for both of us. Survival of the fittest. View quote
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Politics is policy. What policy should you follow in view of the idea that there isn't enough to go around - the power of the few, or the needs of the many? Political economy is based on misassumptions... View quote
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It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry. The essence of livingry is human-life advantaging and environment controlling. With the highest aeronautical and engineering facilities of the world redirected from weaponry to livingry production, all humanity would have the option of becoming enduringly successful. View quote
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