The opposite of nature is impossible.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHumanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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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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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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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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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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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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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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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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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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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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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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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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