Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhat usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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