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Children, As Well As Grown-ups, In Their Individual, Glorified, Drudgery-proof Homes Of Labrador, The Tropics, The Orient, Or Where You Will, To Which They Can Pass With Pleasure And Expedition By Means Of Ever-improving Transportation, Will Be Able To Tune In Their Television And Radio To The Moving Picture Lecture Of, Let Us Say, President Lowell Of Harvard; The Professor Of Mathematics Of Oxford; Of The Doctor Of Indian Antiquities Of Delhi, Etc.

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Children, As Well As Grown-ups, In Their Individual, Glorified, Drudgery-proof Homes Of Labrador, The Tropics, The Orient, Or Where You Will, To Which They Can Pass With Pleasure And Expedition By Means Of Ever-improving Transportation, Will Be Able To Tune In Their Television And Radio To The Moving Picture Lecture Of, Let Us Say, President Lowell Of Harvard; The Professor Of Mathematics Of Oxford; Of The Doctor Of Indian Antiquities Of Delhi, Etc.

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Life Is The Spirit Incarnate In Time.

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You Don't Belong To You. You Belong To The Universe And You're Here To Serve.

Initiative Can Neither Be Created Nor Delegated. It Can Only Spring From The Self-determining Individual, Who Decides That The Wisdom Of Others Is Not Always Better Than His Own.

It Is A Fact Today That One In Ten Thousand Of Us Can Make A Technological Breakthrough Capable Of Supporting All The Rest.

It Is Not For Me To Change You. The Question Is, How Can I Be Of Service To You Without Diminishing Your Degrees Of Freedom?

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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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Faith Is Much Better Than Belief. Belief Is When Someone Else Does The Thinking.

The Earth Is Like A Spaceship That Didn't Come With An Operating Manual.

By And Large, I Seem To Have Made More Mistakes Than Any Others Of Whom I Know, But Have Learned Thereby To Make Ever Swifter Acknowledgment Of The Errors And Thereafter Immediately Set About To Deal More Effectively With The Truths Disclosed By The Acknowledgment Of Erroneous Assumptions.

Children Will Draw Pictures With Everything In Them...houses And Trees And People And Animals...and The Sun And The Moon. Grown-up Says, "that's A Nice Picture, Honey, But You Put The Moon And The Sun In The Sky At The Same Time And That Isn't Right." But The Child Is Right! The Sun And Moon Are In The Sky At The Same Time.

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Universe Is Plural At Minimum Sixfold.

You Can Never Learn Less; You Can Only Learn More.

Does Humanity Have A Chance To Survive Lastingly And Successfully On Planet Earth, And If So, How?

Above All, I Am Motivated By The Most Mysterious Drive We Ever Experience -that Of Love - I Don't Think There's Any Influence On My Life That Compares With Love.

We Are Prisoners Of Our Own Metaphors, Metaphorically Speaking.

The Impossible Happens.

I Am Convinced All Of Humanity Is Born With More Gifts Than We Know. Most Are Born Geniuses And Just Get De-geniused Rapidly.

Here Is An Educational Bombshell: Take From All Of Today's Industrial Nations All Their Industrial Machinery And All Their Energy-distributing Networks, And Leave Them All Their Ideologies, 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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