Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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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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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Truth is a tendency.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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