All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe opposite of nature is impossible.
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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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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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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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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Never show unfinished work.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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I look for what needs to be done
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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