#si

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#any #consistently #enough #entertained #fool

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

#become #best #elevate #heart #honesty

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#contains #fire #food #home #house

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#critical #entitled #epistles #essays #impressions

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#dualism #fact #female #feminine #fluid

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#designer #economist #emerging #evolutionary #inventor

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

#ambitious #because #become #behind #effectively

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#away #fade #parties #political #political parties

Love is metaphysical gravity. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#gravity #love is #metaphysical

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#dead #embroidery #expensive #grave #monument