“Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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“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.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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“Either war is obsolete, or men are.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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“Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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“God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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“Truth is a tendency.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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“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
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“Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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