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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#any #damn #damn fool #every #fool

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#child #each #experience #history #may

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#away #fade #parties #political #political parties

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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