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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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Clothes Embroidery Suits
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Children Frequently People Self
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
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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Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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Integrity Law Men
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Progress Reason Stage

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