Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Truth is a tendency.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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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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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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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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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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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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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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