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R. Buckminster Fuller
July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983
Nationality: American
Category: Inventor
Subcategory: American Inventor

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

   

Truth is a tendency.

   

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

   

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

   

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

   

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

   

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

   

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

   

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

   

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

   

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

   

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

   

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

   

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

   

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

   

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

   

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.

   

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

   

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

   

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

   

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