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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Either war is obsolete, or men are.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Tension is the great integrity.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Man knows so much and does so little.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller
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Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney Everything ceases to fade Leaving my soul all the pain.
Sayed AbbasSayed Abbas To attain success everyone speaks about consistency, don’t give up & patience but no one talk about the start.
Rohit DeoraRohit Deora Take a moment to look back. Change the process slightly from your discovery. Start again.
Hei-Ran ParkHei-Ran Park The silence was broken with the music of your pain, but with every note i could see a part of you healing.
Sophie AliaSophie Alia It has been the craziest year filled with so many adventures, amazing friends, accomplishments & memories.
Little PaulsonLittle Paulson They say what is lost can always be found in the last place you look but I wouldn’t be so sure that you’ll ever see this version of me again.
Aimee C. HoveyAimee C. Hovey I want to see our demons complement each other for the rest of our lives.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster It’s also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you’re not really going to get anywhere. You’ll never become an expert.
Angela DuckworthAngela Duckworth I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable.
Primo LeviPrimo Levi God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
William GoldingWilliam Golding American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them.
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