A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERGod is a verb, not a noun.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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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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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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Truth is a tendency.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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