Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERUniverse is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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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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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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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Integrity 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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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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