I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERRight now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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The 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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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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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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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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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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