Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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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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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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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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