Don’t fight forces, use them.
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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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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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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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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