One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIntegrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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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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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Doing more with less.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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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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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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