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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Children Choices Spontaneous
[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
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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Environmental Humanity Mind
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
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
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
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
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Hippie People Thinking
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
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
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Energy Inspirational Motivational
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Light People Ships
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Immediately Problem Realistically
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Gun Moving War