If you change the environment, you change the people.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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You can’t learn less.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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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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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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