"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, American Inventor

Ability, Nations

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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."

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"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."

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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."

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"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."

Vance Packard, American Writer

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"I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar."

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."

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"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent."

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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

Nothing

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

Nature

"I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself."

Needs

"Either war is obsolete, or men are."

Man

"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."

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"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

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"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them."

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"I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."

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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."

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"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."

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