What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThose who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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