Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERA problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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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 explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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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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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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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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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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