Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERYou can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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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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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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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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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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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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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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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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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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