R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
Quotes to Explore
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I believed I was invincible.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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My heart is really in building coalitions.
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Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.
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One guy that really inspired me was Michael Jordan. I wouldn't say that he inspired me as a sportsman, but I love going back and watching videos of him, especially how he conducts himself in interviews. He always seemed to be very careful about the words that he used and thought about everything differently to anybody else.
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All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.
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We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
