Man knows so much and does so little.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERPollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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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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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Truth is a tendency.
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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