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 FULLERGreat nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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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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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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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