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

Fuller, R. Buckminster on politics
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"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on problems
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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on beauty
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"Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on world   

"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."

Algren, Nelson on advice
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"Freedom is just chaos with better lighting."

Foster, Alan Dean on freedom
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"Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on faith
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"What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on education
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"Our power is in our ability to decide."

Fuller, Buckminster on power
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"Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight."

Hardy, Thomas on world   

"Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream."

Fields, W. C. on life
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"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money."

Fields, W. C. on money   

"I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday."

Fields, W. C. on life   

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

Fitzgerald, Ella on failure
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"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."

Foster, Jodie on normality
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"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

Freud, Anna on strength
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"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."

Fuller, Buckminster on humankind   

"If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference."

Fuller, Buckminster on integrity
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"Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones."

Smith, Sydney on solitude
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"One can acquire everything in solitude except character."

Stendhal, Henri B. on solitude   

"I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude."

Thoreau, Henry David on solitude
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"You have already failed if you need a lot of inspectors."

Unknown, Source on solitude   

"When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude."

Wordsworth, William on solitude   

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on solitude
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"We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness."

Russell, Bertrand on solitude   

"If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right."

Renard, Jules on solitude
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"Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone."

Quincey, Thomas De on solitude
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"Life without a friend is death without a witness."

Proverb, Spanish on solitude
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"Solitude begets whimsies."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on solitude   

"What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?"

Milton, John on solitude   

"An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."

Miller, Henry on solitude
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"Go away, I'm all right!"

Wells, H.G. on solitude   

"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

Sarton, May on solitude
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"Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices."

Beecher, Henry Ward on fear
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"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear."

Bacon, Francis on fear
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"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."

Carnegie, Dale on fear
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"Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear."

Carnegie, Dale on fear
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"The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."

Carlyle, Thomas on fear
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"Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate."

Canfield, Jack on fear
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"When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear."

Buddha on fear
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