Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERDictators never invent their own opportunities.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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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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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Truth is a tendency.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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