Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.
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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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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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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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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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I look for what needs to be done
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