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.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERSometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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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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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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