Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERParents 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.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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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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Truth is a tendency.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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