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.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERTension is the great integrity.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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