People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERBy 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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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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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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