We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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