My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERMan knows so much and does so little.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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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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What 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.
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