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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Else Journey Life Somewhere
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Book Humanity Reading
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Children Choices Spontaneous
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
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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Progress Reason Stage
The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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Assumption Evolution Realization
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Heart Integrity Self