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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

R. Buckminster Fuller

All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Conditioned Imprisoned Think Understand
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Doctors Medicine Men
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Jobs Numbers Politics
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
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
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
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
Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
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
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Integration Life Love
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
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
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