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 FULLERWe must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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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.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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I look for what needs to be done
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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