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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Humanity Overlapping Universe
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
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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Age Attention Support You
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Knows Plus Thinking
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Humanity Vision World
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Children Choices Spontaneous
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?”
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Children Crush Order
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy