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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity...
Grunch of Giants (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
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I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
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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 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 shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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I sometimes think we all die at twenty-five and after that are nothing but walking corpses, with gramophones inside.
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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
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I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?
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I spent twelve years training for a career that was over in a week. Joe Namath spent one week training for a career that lasted twelve years.
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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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 stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.
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