The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe 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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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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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 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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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.
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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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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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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.
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