R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.
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Our entire judicial system in Liberia has broken down because of the many years of lawlessness, indiscipline and warfare. We need more training to get more qualified judges. We need infrastructural reforms. All of our laws need to be re-examined by a law reform commission.
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I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.
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Being on my own in a studio is really, really different than making music with the band. I can't say I necessarily enjoy it more, but it was just a new experience for me.
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A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.
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The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject.
