Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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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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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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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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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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