I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERAll of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love – I don’t think there’s any influence on my life that compares with love.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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I look for what needs to be done
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Never show unfinished work.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
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How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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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 prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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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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