Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERTombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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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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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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