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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.

R. Buckminster Fuller

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Divorce Education Lost Love
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?”
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Crush Order
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
I look for what needs to be done
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Art Looks Needs
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Earth Passenger Spaceships
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

People School Thinking
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Special Thinking Trying
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Firsts Years
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Action Adequate Care
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Better Get Little Machine Politically
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?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Economic Examination Government Individual
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Country Jobs Wisdom
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
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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Design Tools Wisdom
Man knows so much and does so little.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Hypocrisy Men Sad