Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERQuite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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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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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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