There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe 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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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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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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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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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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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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I look for what needs to be done
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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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