Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
BUCKMINSTER FULLEREach one of us could make the difference.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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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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Each one of us could make the difference.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Truth is a tendency.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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