Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERGold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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