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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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Environment Initiative Thinking
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking
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
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
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
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
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

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