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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Successful Technology Years
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Order Survival Tasks
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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Peace Planets Spectacular
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Immediately Problem Realistically
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Clothes Embroidery Suits
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Design Order Priorities
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Better Get Little Machine Politically