Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERA proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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