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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Humanity Overlapping Universe
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Integrity People Political
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
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
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
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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Children Crush Order
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
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
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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Economic Examination Government Individual
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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