Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHow 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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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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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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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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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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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.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Doing more with less.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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