The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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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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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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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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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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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