In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSeeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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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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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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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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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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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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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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