We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERMan knows so much and does so little.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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