The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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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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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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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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Truth is a tendency.
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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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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