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.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERTruth is a tendency.
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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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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