Quotes 1381 till 1400 of 4584.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
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I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
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I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.
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I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
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I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform humans, being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less...
Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
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I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
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I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) A Book That Influenced Me
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