R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before.
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I am a bit of a 'dreamer,' so I love fantasizing about utopian futures, and I also love the way you can explore big concepts in sci fi.
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
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California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization.
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Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.
