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 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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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