Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERObservation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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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.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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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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