Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERMy ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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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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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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