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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Environment Initiative Thinking
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 no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Generalized Giving Mind Special
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
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
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe