Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERBy 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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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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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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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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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 youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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