Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERNinety-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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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
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Think 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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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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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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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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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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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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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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