"Gold and silver from the dead turn often…" — R. Buckminster Fuller
"Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead."
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220 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller has 220 quotes on this site.
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Everyone is born a genius.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so…
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You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have…
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Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and…
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Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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You can never learn less; you can only learn more.
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What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating…
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then…
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the…
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe…
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We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that…
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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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