Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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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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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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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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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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