Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERGeniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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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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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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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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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Television is the third parent.
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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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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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