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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind

R. Buckminster Fuller

People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Alternative Intelligent Stupid
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
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
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
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
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
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Finals Humanity Race
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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Giving People Thinking