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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThink 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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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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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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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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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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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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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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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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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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