Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERDictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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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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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 end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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