Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERDegrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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You can’t learn less.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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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 nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
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