Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHuman beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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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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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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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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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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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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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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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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