Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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Here is God’s purpose – for 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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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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