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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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Divorce Education Lost Love
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Damaged Learning Others
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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Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Animal Dimension Nature Space
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Done Humans Instead Really Society
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 dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Dark Persistence Thinking
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World