All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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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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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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