The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou 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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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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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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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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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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