R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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I'm a real girly-girl.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
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When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
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I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.
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Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we're supposed to be.
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Singing is a kind of sport and a singer a kind of athlete and following this model becoming "vocally fit" - building vocal muscles - should be the point of any form of voice teaching. Other approaches don't work directly on building vocal muscles but instead focus on so-called diaphragm support and breathing, mask singing, breath control, throat relaxation - all of which are useless at best and harmful at worst.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
