The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERGreat nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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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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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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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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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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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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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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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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