R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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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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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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God is a verb, not a noun.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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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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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Don't fight forces, use them.
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Truth is a tendency.
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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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.