"All sorts of problems and the interconnectedness between them that [Buckminster Fuller] was able to perceive sometimes rightly, often wrongly, always interestingly and also the fact that he was looking at solutions often that were not feasible in his own time but potentially could be applied today."

-- Jonathon Keats

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“I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.”
“Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.”
“This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.”
“He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.”
“Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.”

Source : J. P. Donleavy (2010). “The Ginger Man”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.”

Source : John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.250, Random House
“Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.”
“I came from rather humble beginnings.”

Source : Teresa Palmer by Sarah Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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