"Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion……" — R. Buckminster Fuller
"Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe"
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R. Buckminster Fuller
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220 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller
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Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The…
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Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall…
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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a…
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There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public…
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A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views…
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One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the…
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There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted
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Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of…
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The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most…
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