Fuller, R. Buckminster
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Fuller, R. Buckminster
Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Education
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Dictators and Dictatorship
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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Education
Those who play with the devil s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Devil
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Faith
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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Grave
Here is God s purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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God
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
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History and Historians
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Growth
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Learning
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Management
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Leaders and Leadership
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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Human Nature
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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Manners
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Politicians and Politics
When I m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Problems
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Tradition
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Misfortunes
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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Pollution
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Proverbs
Don t fight forces, use them.
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Architecture
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it s going to be a butterfly.
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Beauty
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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World