The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHowever, 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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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Television is the third parent.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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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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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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