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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.

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.
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Divorce Education Lost Love
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Born Genius Technology
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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Guitar Leadership Strength
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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Laws Physical Satisfaction True
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Following Kind Thinking
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
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
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Men Successful Wisdom
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern