R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
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• My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Life
  • Child
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• There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Book
  • Moment

• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
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• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Important
  • Love
  • Person

• It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

  

  F. H. Bradley
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  • Good
  • Man

• Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

  

  Harold Wilson
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  • Party
  • Office

• In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Everything
  • Year
  • Will

• Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Wealth
  • Environmental
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• I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Light
  • Football

• I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.

  

  Karan Johar
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  • Television
  • Indian

• The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Same
  • Morals

• Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Worry

• I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Think
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Difficult
  • Relationships

• Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

  

  Lysander Spooner

• Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Up
  • Good
  • Serious

• I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Important
  • Think
  • Integrity

• Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • You
  • Always

• It would be different if it was someone you didn't like and he was a horrible person, giving it all the time, but he's not like that.

  

  Ian Wright
  • Time
  • Different
  • Giving

• The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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  • Children