We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHumans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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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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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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Doing more with less.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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