The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThose who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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