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.
R. Buckminster FullerRead
His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of inclusivity and serving the needs of all people.
R. Buckminster Fuller advocates for a vision where the world operates effectively for everyone, suggesting that true progress lies not in benefiting only a select few but in creating systems that are advantageous to all of humanity. This holistic approach calls for innovative solutions that address the needs and aspirations of every individual, promoting a sense of shared responsibility for a sustainable future.
In practice
In a speech advocating for social equity, this quote can illustrate the importance of inclusive practices.
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.
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
Only powerful people have liberty.
At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.
If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed ridiculous to suppose that a man had less rights in himself than one of his neighbors, or indeed all of them put together. This would be slavery, and not that liberty which the bill of rights has made inviolable, and for the preservation of which our government has been charged.
The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.
You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.
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