Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERParents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Truth is a tendency.
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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.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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