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Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#bestow #careful #children #concern #doing

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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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. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#capabilities #educational #faculties #happens #innate

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

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Surviving is the only glory in war. ↗

— Samuel Fuller

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No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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