Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThere 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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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Never show unfinished work.
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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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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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