Man knows so much and does so little.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERMost of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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