I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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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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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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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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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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