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R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Politics Gun End Always Up Move

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Maynard Keynes

Government Process Wealth Important

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Truth Small Human Complete Instant

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Value Philosophy Survey Existence

For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.

People Me Chance Feet House First

You can't really claim too much ownership of your character. They really do belong to the writers, and in many ways, you're just their puppet.

Character Ownership You Too Much

I sold my first screenplay six months before 'Glee,' but they had the option for a year and now it's back with me.

Me Year Back Now First Six

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

Donald Rumsfeld

Life Time Service Public Service May

I think when you write something as standup material, it forces you to think about how you're gonna tell that story in one way, and then, when you get the opportunity to shoot it, you almost have to reframe how you go about it and rethink the entire process.

Opportunity Story Think Process You

Focus on your opinion of yourself and not the opinion others have of you.

Focus Yourself Opinion You Others

At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.

Me Writing Book Believe Blind True

'Green' issues at last are attracting serious attention, owing to critically important links between the environment and the economy, health, and our security.

Health Green Attention Security Last

I was taught that Jesus the Son of God was a white man, and hearing black people singing, 'Lord, wash me, and I will be whiter than snow,' made me sick.

Snow Son God Man People Singing

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