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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#designer #economist #emerging #evolutionary #inventor

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#depend #does #experiment #hard #make

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#away #fade #parties #political #political parties

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

#capabilities #educational #faculties #happens #innate

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#badly #emergence #emergency #enough #ideas

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

#dead #embroidery #expensive #grave #monument

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#his #hole #into #money #nose

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#him #horse #man #passion #rides

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#cloak #her #honorable #humility #often

Pride will spit in pride's face. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#pride #spit #will