Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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I look for what needs to be done
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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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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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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