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BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe 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.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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 most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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