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.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
More Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go.
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Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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Each one of us could make the difference.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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Tension is the great integrity.
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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