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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?" They Smell, Taste, Bite, And Touch-test For Hardness, Softness, Springiness, Roughness, Smoothness, Coldness, Warmness: They Heft, Shake, Punch, Squeeze, Push, Crush, Rub, And Try To Pull Things Apart.

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Children Are Born True

R. Buckminster Fuller

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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?" They Smell, Taste, Bite, And Touch-test For Hardness, Softness, Springiness, Roughness, Smoothness, Coldness, Warmness: They Heft, Shake, Punch, Squeeze, Push, Crush, Rub, And Try To Pull Things Apart.

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Earning A Living

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I Have Great Hope For Tomorrow. My Hope Lies In Three Things-truth, Youth, And Love.

Ninety-nine Percent Of Humanity Does Not Know That We Have The Option To "make It" Economically On This Planet And In The Universe. We Do.

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I Am Deeply Impressed With The Designer Of The Universe; I Am Confident I Couldnt Have Done Anywhere Near Such A Good Job.

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There Is Enough For Everyone. People Think That There Isn't Enough, So They Get As Much As They Can, So Many People Don't Have Enough.

You Can't Change Anything By Fighting Or Resisting It. You Change Something By Making It Obsolete Through Superior Methods.

I'm Not Trying To Copy Nature, I'm Trying To Find The Principles She's Using.

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The Most Important Part About Tomorrow Is Not The Technology Or The Automation, But That Man Is Going To Come Into Entirely New Relationships With His Fellow Men. He Will Retain Much More In His Everyday Life Of What We Term The Naïveté And Idealism Of The Child. I Think The Way To See What Tomorrow Is Going To Look Like Is Just To Look At Our Children.

New Relationship

Thinking Is A Momentary Dismissal Of Irrelevancies.

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Nature Is A Totally Efficient, Self-regenerati Ng System. If We Discover The Laws That Govern This System And Live Synergistically Within Them, Sustainability Will Follow And Humankind Will Be A Success.

You Have To Decide Whether You Want To Make Money Or Make Sense, Because The Two Are Mutually Exclusive.

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Love Is Omni-inclusive, Progressively Exquisite, Understanding And Compassionately Attuned To Other Than Self.

Everyone Is Born A Genius, But The Process Of Living De-geniuses Them.

The Purpose Of Our Lives Is To Add Value To The People Of This Generation And Those That Follow.

Conceptuality Is Subjective; Realization Is Objective.

Perception Is One Millionth Of One Percent Reality (truth In Fact).

All Of Humanity Is In Peril Of Extinction If Each One Of Us Does Not Dare, Now And Henceforth, Always To Tell Only The Truth, And All The Truth, And To Do So Promptly - Right Now.

If Humanity Does Not Opt For Integrity We Are Through Completely. It Is Absolutely Touch And Go. Each One Of Us Could Make The Difference.

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.

Geniuses Are Just People Who Had Good Mothers.

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