We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERI’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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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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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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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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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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