Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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 just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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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 designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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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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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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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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