Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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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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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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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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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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