As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERPhysics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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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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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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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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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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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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Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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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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