R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Quotes to Explore
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By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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My dad was in the movie 'Moonwalker,' and I knew he could sing really well, but I didn't know he could act. I saw that, and I said, 'Wow. I want to be just like him.'
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Beauty is whatever gives joy.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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I'm a horror movie fan to begin with, so to come back to the genre, I feel like horror has been very good to me.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.
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A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
