There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERDictators never invent their own opportunities.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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Truth is a tendency.
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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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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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