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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Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.
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With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
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The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
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It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
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There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.
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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.
