Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhat 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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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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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