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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.

R. Buckminster Fuller

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Animal Dimension Nature Space
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
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Integrity People Political
Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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Feeling Increased Wealth
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study