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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERA problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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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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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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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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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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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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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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This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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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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The assumption is that the inevitability of a solution’s realization is inherent in the interaction of human intellect and the constantly transformative evolution of physical universe.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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