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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Conditioned Imprisoned Think Understand
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Finals Humanity Race
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Design Political World
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Discord Turns War
It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Consessus Experiencxe Science
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
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Conformity Creativity Integrity
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
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men