R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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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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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Don't fight forces, use them.
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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. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.