Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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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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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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