My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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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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