Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERFaith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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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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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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