A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

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.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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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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Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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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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Tension is the great integrity.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller Quote

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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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 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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