Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERVastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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