Don’t fight forces, use them.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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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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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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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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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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