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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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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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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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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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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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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.
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.