Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERMan knows so much and does so little.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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