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R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: inventor
Nationality: american
Birth: July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983

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Mistake You Get Most Uncover Rid

I've never had a record in my life. People would buy somebody a record for their birthday or Christmas or something like that. People used to play records in their houses. I used to borrow. I only had about 10 records. That's all I needed. And I'd borrow them from anybody.

Life Birthday People My Life Play

But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am.

Work I Am People Help Will Line

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

Life Financial Someone Data Credit

Nothing happened overnight. Every country we went into, we started at the bottom. We knew that because the music we were playing and the attitude we had, we knew we'd be at the bottom and have to work our way up.

Work Attitude Music Country Nothing

There are too many people coming to parks doing the wrong things. They treat the parks like popcorn playgrounds. They don't understand what the national parks mean.

People Treat Doing Wrong Understand

I became a Republican, before I knew what a Republican even was, because of Ronald Reagan.

Republican Because Even Knew Before

I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

Stephen Sprouse

School High School Design Island

If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.

Life People View Literature You See

I'm no enthusiast for the Coase Theorem. I don't like it, but it's widely used.

Used Like Enthusiast Theorem Widely

I would say confidence and security and comfortability in one's own skin. I think that's so attractive. Truly.

Confidence Think Security Skin Say

I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.

Good Time Writing Enough Career

There is no legislative change that can be made to make up for an economy that's not growing and not expanding.

Martin O'Malley

Change Growing Economy Legislative

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