How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERMind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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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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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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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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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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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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