Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERFaith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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