Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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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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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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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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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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