We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEROnly our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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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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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Television is the third parent.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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