Television is the third parent.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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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.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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