My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERRashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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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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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Truth is a tendency.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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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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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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