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

R. Buckminster Fuller

And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Finals Humanity Race
I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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Needs Relevant Wells
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Hippie People Thinking
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Money People Want
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
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
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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