God is a verb, not a noun.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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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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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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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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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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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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