A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Quote by R Buckminster Fuller

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Don't fight forces, use them.

Don't fight forces, use them.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Tension is the great integrity.

Tension is the great integrity.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch...

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch...

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the...

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the...

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no...

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no...

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly...

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly...

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional...

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional...

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for...

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for...

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere...

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere...

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes...

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes...

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not...

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not...