Either war is obsolete, or men are.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERMan knows so much and does so little.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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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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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Truth is a tendency.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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