It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEREither war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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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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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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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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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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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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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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