How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERQuite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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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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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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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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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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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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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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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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Controlled time is our true wealth.
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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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