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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERon first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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We 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 wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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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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Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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