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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.


Buckminster Fuller

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MARGARET FULLER Law cannot persuade where it cannot punish.
THOMAS FULLER Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
MARGARET FULLER In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly,...
ALEXANDRA FULLER If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has...
THOMAS FULLER It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals t...
THOMAS FULLER There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in t...
THOMAS FULLER Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.
THOMAS FULLER Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
THOMAS FULLER Today is yesterday's pupil.
THOMAS FULLER Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
THOMAS FULLER He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
THOMAS FULLER Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
THOMAS FULLER Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual...
MARGARET FULLER Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of...
THOMAS FULLER Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed o...
THOMAS FULLER We have all forgot more than we remember.
THOMAS FULLER A good garden may have some weeds.
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