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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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Popularity is not leadership.
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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
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Public sharing is an important part of science.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.
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Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
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Religion teaches the dangerous nonsense that death is not the end.
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Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
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Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.
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Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
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Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
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Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
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