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We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
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Specialization is in fact only a fancy form of slavery wherein the 'expert' is fooled into accepting a slavery by making him feel that he in turn is a socially and culturally preferred-ergo, highly secure-lifelong position.
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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.
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