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

R. Buckminster Fuller

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Diversity Fate Success
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Integrity Mean Support
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
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
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
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Designer Done Jobs
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Money People Want