It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHistory’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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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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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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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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I look for what needs to be done
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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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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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