Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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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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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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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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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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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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