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R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Parent Unhappy Faithful Misfortune

What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done?

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Better Done What If Possible Odds

Any time you get a new running back, whether it's a rookie or hasn't played a lot, that's the first thing you test, is their pass protection. That's big.

Time You Back New Test First

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

Success Business Friends Ability

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

January Evil Endure Month Empty Us

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

Ronald Perelman

People Control You Weak Freak Only

The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.

Failure Government Energy Winners

Net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently - say, by letting some work better than others over their pipes.

Work Better Say Others Websites

So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years.

Job Thinking You Go Pilot Knowing

My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.

Job War Hair Think Acting First

Most pilots learn, when they pin on their wings and go out and get in a fighter, especially, that one thing you don't do, you don't believe anything anybody tells you about an airplane.

Airplane Believe Learn Wings You Go

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that... we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and... preposterous.

Son God People Believe You Find

The proudest thing I have ever done was to win the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles at Wimbledon.

Win Done Mixed Doubles Ever Thing

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