Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERPollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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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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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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