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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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Determine Initiative Self Spring
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Children Choices Spontaneous
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Go Letting Life Should
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
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
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
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
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
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
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
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