The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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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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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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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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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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However, 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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