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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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All sports are time control demonstrations.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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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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Quite 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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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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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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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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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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