If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERThose who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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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’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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