The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAnd 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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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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It 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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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Quite 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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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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