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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

R. Buckminster Fuller

…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
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
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
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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Country Jobs Wisdom
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
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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Done Needs Things
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ability Person Wealth
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
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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Democracy Law Support
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Believe Blind Men Spots
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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Special Thinking Trying
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails