Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERI look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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 end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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