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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Age Dark Thinking
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
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
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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People School Thinking
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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Love Lying Three
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
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
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Children New Relationship Technology
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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Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
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
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind Strong Women Well Known