Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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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Don’t fight forces, use them.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Truth is a tendency.
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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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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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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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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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