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“I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.”

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R. Buckminster Fuller, born on July 12, 1895, and died on July 1, 1983, was an American architect, designer, inventor, and philosopher. Known for his unique architectural ideas and contributions to sustainable development, Fuller is best known for his Dymaxion House and Geodesic Dome. His design philosophy emphasized efficiency, simplicity, and sustainability, having a profound impact on modern architecture and design. more

“Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.”

Ifs Knows Humans Mean Doe Pain Justice Virtue Mankind Human Nature Honor Gains Appearance Esteem Acknowledge Hypocrisy Hypocrite Ornaments

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.”

Justice Virtue Godlike

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“Knavery is ever suspicious of knavery.”

Suspicious Knavery

Author:Joseph Addison

“God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.”

Action Opportunity Rewards Trials Performing Flames Torture Martyr Hereafter

Author:Joseph Addison

“Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.”

Soul Desire Religious Music Inspire Fit Wings Lifts Heat Sublime Deities

Book:The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer

Source: The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer

“Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.”

Doe Purpose Nature

Author:Joseph Addison

“There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.”

Wells School Greater Pieces Written Profound Depth Divinity Nonsense Obscurity Well Written Perplexity Intricacy

Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.”

Kind Ordinary Entertainment Complaining Usual Novelty Refreshments Satiety

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

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