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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. Geodesic Spheres Demonstrate The Compressionally Discontinuous--tensionally Continuous Integrity. Ecology Is Tensegrity Geodesic Spherical Programming.

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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. Geodesic Spheres Demonstrate The Compressionally Discontinuous--tensionally Continuous Integrity. Ecology Is Tensegrity Geodesic Spherical Programming.

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A Proverb Is Much Matter Distilled Into Few Words.

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The Explicable Requires The Inexplicable. Experience Requires The Nonexperienceable. The Obvious Requires The Mystical.

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You Can Never Learn Less; You Can Only Learn More.

We As Economic Society Are Going To Have To Pay Our Whole Population To Go To School And Pay It To Stay At School.

To Do More And More With Less And Less Until Eventually You Can Do Everything With Nothing.

I Have Great Hope For Tomorrow. My Hope Lies In Three Things-truth, Youth, And Love.

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There Is No Energy Crisis, Only A Crisis Of Ignorance.

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Real Wealth Is Ideas Plus Energy.

Truth Is The Progressive Diminution Of Residual Error.

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Controlled Time Is Our True Wealth.

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God Is A Verb, Not A Noun.

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Seeing-is-believing Is A Blind Spot In Man's Vision.

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There Is No Such Thing As Genius, Some Children Are Just Less Damaged Than Others.

Selfishness Is Unnecessary. War Is Obsolete.

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Nature Is A Totally Efficient, Self-regenerati Ng System. If We Discover The Laws That Govern This System And Live Synergistically Within Them, Sustainability Will Follow And Humankind Will Be A Success.

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I Find Man Utterly Unaware Of What His Wealth Is Or His Fundamental Capability Is. He Says Time And Again, "we Can't Afford It." For Instance, We Are Saying Now That We Can't Afford To Do Anything About Pollution But After The Costs Of Not Doing Something About Pollution Have Multiplied Many Fold Beyond What It Would Cost To Correct It Now, We Will Spend Many Fold What It Would Cost Us Now To Correct It.

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Conceptuality Is Subjective; Realization Is Objective.

Everything We See Is Inside Our Own Heads.

The Minute You Begin To Do What You Really Want To Do, It's Really A Different Kind Of Life.

The Assumption Is That The Inevitability Of A Solution's Realization Is Inherent In The Interaction Of Human Intellect And The Constantly Transformative Evolution Of Physical Universe.

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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.

Synergy Means Behavior Of Whole Systems Unpredicted By The Behavior Of Their Parts.

Only Our Minds Are Able To Discover The Generalized Principles Operating Without Exception In Each And Every Special-experience Case Which If Detected And Mastered Will Give Knowledgeable Advantage In All Instances.

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The Most Important Thing To Teach Your Children Is That The Sun Does Not Rise And Set. It Is The Earth That Revolves Around The Sun. Then Teach Them The Concepts Of North, South, East And West, And That They Relate To Where They Happen To Be On The Planet's Surface At That Time. Everything Else Will Follow.

I Am A Passenger On The Spaceship Earth.

The Vector Equilibrium Is The True Zero Reference Of The Energetic Mathematics. Zero Pulsation In The Vector Equilibrium Is The Nearest Approach We Will Ever Know To Eternity And God: The Zero Phase Of Conceptual Integrity Inherent In The Positive And Negative Asymmetries That Propagate The Differentials Of Consciousness.

Dwell Not Too Long Upon Sports: For As They Refresh A Man That Is Weary, So They Weary A Man That Is Refreshed.

Man Is Going To Be Displaced Altogether As A Specialist By The Computer. Man Himself Is Being Forced To Reestablish, Employ, And Enjoy His Innate 'comprehensivity.

There Is An Inherently Minimum Set Of Essential Concepts And Current Information, Cognizance Of Which Could Lead To Our Operating Our Planet Earth To The Lasting Satisfaction And Health Of All Humanity.

Universe Is The Aggregate Of All Humanity's Consciously Apprehended And Communicated Nonsimultaneous And Only Partially Overlapping Experiences.

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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Pollution Is Nothing But Resources We're Not Harvesting.

Integrity Is The Courage And Self-discipline To Cooperate And Initiate According To The Divine, Which You Know In Your Heart As Truth.

You Never Change People By Fighting Their Existing Reality.

Physics Has Found No Straight Lines. Instead, The Physical Universe Consists Of Only Waves Undulating Back And Forth Allowing For Corrections And Balance.

It Is One Of Our Most Exciting Discoveries That Local Discovery Leads To A Complex Of Further Discoveries.

Unsolved Problems

It Seemed That The Time Would Come Evolutionarily When Humans Might Have Acquired Enough Knowledge Of Generalized Principles To Permit A Graduation From Class-two (entropically Selfish) Evolution Into Class-one (syntropically Cooperative) Evolution, Thereafter Making All The Right Moves For All The Right Reasons.

Architects, If They Are Really To Be Comprehensive, Must Assume The Enormous Task Of Thinking In Terms Always Disciplined To The Scale Of The Total World Pattern Of Needs, Its Resource Flows, Its Recirculatory And Regenerative Processes.

How Often I Found Where I Should Be Going Only By Setting Out For Somewhere Else.

Don't Attempt To Reform Man. An Adequately Organized Environment Will Permit Humanity's Original, Innate Capabilities To Become Successful.

For At Least 2,000,000 Years Men Have Been Reproducing And Multiplying On A Little Automated Spaceship Called Earth.

Universe To Each Must Be All That Is, Including Me. Environment In Turn Must Be All That Is, Excepting Me.

Pollution Is Nothing But The Resources We Are Not Harvesting. We Allow Them To Disperse Because We've Been Ignorant Of Their Value.

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?

We Speak Erroneously Of "artificial" Materials, "synthetics", And So Forth. The Basis For This Erroneous Terminology Is The Notion That Nature Has Made Certain Things Which We Call Natural, And Everything Else Is "man-made", Ergo Artificial. But What One Learns In Chemistry Is That Nature Wrote All The Rules Of Structuring; Man Does Not Invent Chemical Structuring Rules; He Only Discovers The Rules. All The Chemist Can Do Is Find Out What Nature Permits, And Any Substances That Are Thus Developed Or Discovered Are Inherently Natural. It Is Very Important To Remember That.

You Cannot Question An Assumption You Do Not Know You Have Made.

The Individual Can Take Initiatives Without Anybody's Permission. Only Individuals Can Think. Only The Individual Disregards His Fears And Commits Himself Exclusively To Reforming The Human Environment.

All Children Are Born Geniuses; 9,999 Out Of Every 10,000 Are Swiftly, Inadvertently Degeniusized By Grownups.

Dictators Never Invent Their Own Opportunities.

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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. Make The World Work, For 100% Of Humanity, In The Shortest Possible Time, Through Spontaneous Cooperation, Without Ecological Offense Or The Disadvantage Of Anyone.

God, To Me, It Seems, Is A Verb Not A Noun, Proper Or Improper.

We Find All The No-life-support-wealth-producing People Going To Their 1980s Jobs In Their Cars And Buses, Spending Trillions Of Dollars' Worth Of Petroleum Daily To Get To Their No-wealth-producing Jobs. It Doesn't Take A Computer To Tell You That It Will Save Both Universe And Humanity Trillions Of Dollars A Day To Pay Them Handsomely To Stay At Home.

War Is Obsolete. We Are Not Here To Fight Something Or Tear Something Down; We Are Here To Be The Example Of What Is Possible. Any Sane Individual Will Tell You That Violence Is ... Not The Way.

Search Others For Their Virtue, And Yourself For Your Vices.

We Must Start With Scientific Fundamentals, And That Means With The Data Of Experiments And Not With Assumed Axioms Predicated Only Upon The Misleading Nature Of That Which Only Superficially Seems To Be Obvious. It Is The Consensus Of Great Scientists That Science Is The Attempt To Set In Order The Facts Of Experience.

I Am Deeply Impressed With The Designer Of The Universe; I Am Confident I Couldnt Have Done Anywhere Near Such A Good Job.

By The Time You Are 88 Years Old, You "have Consumed 300 Tons Of Food, Air And Water."

Everyone Has The Perfect Gift To Give The World-and If Each Of Us Is Freed Up To Give Our Unique Gift, The World Will Be In Total Harmony.

Specialization Breeds Biases That Ultimately Aggregate As International And Ideological Discord, Which, In Turn, Leads To War.

Mistakes Are Great, The More I Make The Smarter I Get.

God Is The Great Comprehensive A Priori Integrity Of Universe Within Which Human Beings Find Themselves To Be Operating.

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