If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERParents 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.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Truth is a tendency.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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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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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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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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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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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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