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.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERWar is the ultimate tool of politics.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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