Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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