The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERToo much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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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 explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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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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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Whether 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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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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