Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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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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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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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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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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