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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
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
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Computer Men Technology
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Special Thinking Trying
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Acting Peace Venture
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
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
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
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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People School Thinking
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