How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Truth is a tendency.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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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.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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