Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERDictators never invent their own opportunities.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Truth is a tendency.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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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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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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