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 FULLERGold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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