Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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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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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Television is the third parent.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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