We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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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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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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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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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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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.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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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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Each 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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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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