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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Dream Men Thinking
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Acting Peace Venture
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Infinitely Intellectual Laws Made Man
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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Divorce Education Lost Love
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Children Frequently People Self
All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Conditioned Imprisoned Think Understand
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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Law Past Thinking
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity