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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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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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
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Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
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What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
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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.
