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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

[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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Humanity Vision World
There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Children Damage Genius
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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Children Frequently People Self
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
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
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.
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Learning Men Science
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Goal Greek Support
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Children New Relationship Technology
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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Effectiveness Mysterious Thinking
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Children Crush Order
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Age Dark Thinking
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Support War Wisdom
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Business Ignorant Littering
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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Humanity Nine Ninety Wisdom
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
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious