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> [ \[Buckminster Fuller\] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once, but he kept coming back. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/buckminster-fuller-always-liked-to-say-that-he-got-kicked-out-of/)

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> [ \[The Theosophical Society\] are ideologues in terms of the way they present the material. That's one of the reasons why, when they teach their courses, you only get a smidgen of stuff and you have to keep coming back every… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/the-theosophical-society-are-ideologues-in-terms-of-the-way-they/)

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## More by Paul Laffoley

> [ I first heard of \[Orfeo Angelucci\] from Giuseppe Conti who gave me some books by him. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/i-first-heard-of-orfeo-angelucci-from-giuseppe-conti-who-gave-me-some/)

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> [ The whole thing that Dante \[Alighieri\] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/the-whole-thing-that-dante-alighieri-did-was-summed-up-in-the/)

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> [ You know, Mick Jagger's "Sympathy for the Devil." I think it was inspired by that \[H.P.Lovecraft stories\]. You don't know who's reading what, you… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/you-know-mick-jagger-s-sympathy-for-the-devil-i-think-it-was-inspired/)

[Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-laffoley/)

> [ At 15 \[my father\] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to me?" He… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/at-15-my-father-revolted-against-his-father-like-any-teenager-and/)

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> [At one time in the mid-'70s I became the president of the Boston-Cambridge chapter of the World Future Society. Because I'd been in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/at-one-time-in-the-mid-70s-i-became-the-president-of-the-boston/)

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> [ The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy \[my father\] who also had a problem with believing in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/the-babson-institute-which-is-now-an-actual-university-was-started-by/)

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> [As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the reasons my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/as-a-kid-i-was-getting-information-in-areas-that-no-one-else-was/)

[Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-laffoley/)

> [ Stephen Hawking won \[Babson Institute competition \] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity exists or… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/stephen-hawking-won-babson-institute-competition-one-year-with-his/)

[Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-laffoley/)

> [I would say that it's probably impossible for a lot of people to even think what H.P. Lovecraft's theological state was.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/i-would-say-that-it-s-probably-impossible-for-a-lot-of-people-to-even/)

[Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-laffoley/)

> [My father was an extremely brilliant man. I consider him a genius, and so he probably could have joined Mensa. But why? I got…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/my-father-was-an-extremely-brilliant-man-i-consider-him-a-genius-and/)

[Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-laffoley/)

> [ \[My father\] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/my-father-was-always-saying-i-d-end-up-like-my-grandfather-okay-my/)

[Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-laffoley/)

> [ From the time of Dante \[Alighieri\], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and then in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/from-the-time-of-dante-alighieri-when-you-have-the-ptolemaic-universe/)

[Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-laffoley/)

> [ Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about \[gravity\] being a push. But he had the same basic belief,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/walter-c-wright-has-a-more-cogent-presentation-than-my-father-did/)

[Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-laffoley/)

> [ I would say \[to my father\], "Why don't you actually take some courses in physics instead of saying \[you are not believing in gravity\]?"… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/i-would-say-to-my-father-why-don-t-you-actually-take-some-courses-in/)

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> [ I began to analyze the movie \[The Day the Earth Stood Still\] and said it was really made out of these two characters \[Nikola… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-laffoley/i-began-to-analyze-the-movie-the-day-the-earth-stood-still-and-said/)

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