You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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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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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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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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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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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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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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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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