Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIn the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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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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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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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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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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