Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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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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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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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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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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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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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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