My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERWar is the ultimate tool of politics.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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