Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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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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Truth is a tendency.
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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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