If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHuman 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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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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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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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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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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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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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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