Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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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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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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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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