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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots
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
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Mistake More Smarter
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
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
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Consessus Experiencxe Science
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
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
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Generalized Giving Mind Special
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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Decreasing Foreign Industry Power Public
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