Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAs long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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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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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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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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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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