Quotes 301 till 320 of 415.
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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
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The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
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The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
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The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.
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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.
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The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.
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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
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The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
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The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
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The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
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