Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
BUCKMINSTER FULLEREach one of us could make the difference.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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Tension is the great integrity.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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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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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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