Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDon’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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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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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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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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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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