R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
Quotes to Explore
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.
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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
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I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.
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But for the time being and this will run through today and tomorrow and maybe through the weekend.
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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
