The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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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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Doing more with less.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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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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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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