Parents 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.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERGreat nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.
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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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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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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.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Truth is a tendency.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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