Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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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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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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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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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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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Don’t attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity’s original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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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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Never show unfinished work.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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