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Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Evolution never looks to the future.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
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Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
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For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
The Prospect for Humanity, Saturday Review, 29 August 1964Richard Buckminster Fuller
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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.
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George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
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He is the very pineapple of politeness!
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He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
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Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
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