All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREach one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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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.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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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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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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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.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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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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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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