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The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.
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We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign.
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Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.
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Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
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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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You can never learn less you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
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Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
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What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.
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I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.
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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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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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One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.
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Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.
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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?
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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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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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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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If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
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