"My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted."

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

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“The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When that share rises, house prices will fall, because distressed properties sell for significantly less - currently around 25 percent below non-distressed houses.”
“The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.”

Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.321, Penguin
“Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.”

Source : Idea Sonnet 61, l. 1 (1619)
“When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.”
“Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.”
“I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.”

Source : "The Midas touch". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2009.
“My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two”
“I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction.”

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