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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWe live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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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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The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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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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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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