There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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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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