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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Needs
Universe
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Clothes
Grave
Monument
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Mistake
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Nothing
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Earth
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics
End
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Earth
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.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Art
Knowledge
Virtue
Children
Concern
Manners
Parents
Truth is a tendency.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth
Tension is the great integrity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Integrity
Tension
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Ideas
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller
People
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Nothing
Pollution
Value
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Misfortune
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Virtue
Vices