You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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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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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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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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You can’t learn less.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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