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All children are born geniuses 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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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Massachusetts
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Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.
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Ideas are easy to come by reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.
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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Everything we see is inside our own heads.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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