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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.

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

In The United States, Throughout All Twenty-four Hours Of Every Day Of The Year - Year After Year - We Have An Average Of Two Million Automobiles Standing In Front Of Red Lights With Their Engines Going, The Energy For Which Amounts To That Generated By The Full Of Efforts Of 200 Million Horses Being Completley Wasted As They Jump Up And Down Going Nowhere.

As Long As One Human Being Is Hungry, The Entire Human Race Is Hungry.

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.

Dolphins May Well Be Carrying Information As Well As Functions Critical To The Regeneration Of Life Upon Our Planet.

Degrees Of Accuracy Are Only Degrees Of Refinement And Magnitude In No Way Affects The Fundamental Reliability, Which Refers, As Directional Or Angular Sense, Toward Centralized Truths. Truth Is A Relationship.

Man Knows So Much And Does So Little.

You Never Change People By Fighting Their Existing Reality.

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?

I Have Spent Most Of My Life Unlearning Things That Were Proved Not To Be True

The Vector Equilibrium Is The Zero Point For Happenings Or Nonhappenings: It Is The Empty Theater And Empty Circus And Empty Universe Ready To Accommodate Any Act And Any Audience.

Wealth Is A Measure Of A Person's Ability To Survive So Many Days Forward.

Coping With The Totality Of Spaceship Earth And Universe Is Ahead For All Of Us.

There Is No Joy Equal To That Of Being Able To Work For All Humanity And Doing What You're Doing Well.

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.

Our Little Spaceship Earth Is Only Eight Thousand Miles In Diameter, Which Is Almost A Negligible Dimension In The Great Vastness Of Space.

Ninety-nine Percent Of Humanity Does Not Know That We Have The Option To "make It" Economically On This Planet And In The Universe. We Do.

God Is A Verb, Not A Noun.

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.

The Pyramids, Attached With Age, Have Forgotten The Names Of Their Founders.

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

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.

"the Further Art Advances The Closer It Approaches Science," Said Leonardo Da Vinci, Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Engineer, And Inventor Of The Wheelbarrow, And Other Useful Instruments From The Speaking Tube To A Mechanically Gyp-proof Whore-house, "the Further Science Advances The Closer It Approaches Art."

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

Truth Is The Progressive Diminution Of Residual Error.

A Problem Adequately Stated Is A Problem Well On Its Way To Being Solved.

My Ideas Have Undergone A Process Of Emergence By Emergency. When They Are Needed Badly Enough, They Are Accepted.

Out Of My General World-pattern-trend Studies There Now Comes Strong Evidence That Nothing Is Going To Be Quite So Surprising And Abrupt In The Future History Of Man As The Forward Evolution In The Educational Process.

The Difference Between Mind And Brain Is That Brain Deals Only With Memorized, Subjective, Special-case Experiences And Objective Experiments, While Mind Extracts And Employs The Generalized Principles And Integrates And Interrelates Their Effective Employment.

It Is The Integrity Of Each Individual Human That Is In Final Examination. On Personal Integrity Hangs Humanity's Fate.

War Is The Ultimate Tool Of Politics.

It Is Essential To Release Humanity From The False Fixations Of Yesterday Which Seem Now To Bind It To A Rationale Of Action Leading Only To Extinction.

Now There Is One Outstanding Important Fact Regarding Spaceship Earth, And That Is That No Instruction Book Came With It.

Every Child Has An Enormous Drive To Demonstrate Competence.

It Is One Of The Strange Facts Of Experience That When We Try To Think About The Future, Our Thoughts Jump Backwards. It May Well Be That Nature Has Some Fundamental Metaphysical Law By Which Opening Up What We Call The Future Also Opens Up The Past In Equal Degree.

Technologically We Now Have Four [seven!] Billion Billionaires On Board Spaceship Earth Who Are Entirely Unaware Of Their Good Fortune.

Unchallenged, Opinions Became Respected Precedent Then Exceptionless Concepts And Sometimes Even Civil And Academically Accepted Social Law.

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. We Know Now What We Could Never Have Known Before - That We Now Have The Option For All Humanity To Make It Successfully On This Planet In This Lifetime. Whether It Is To Be Utopia Or Oblivion Will Be A Touch-and-go Relay Race Right Up To The Final Moment.

You Have To Decide Whether You Want To Make Money Or Make Sense, Because The Two Are Mutually Exclusive.

The One Common Experience Of All Humanity Is The Challenge Of Problems.

Brain Deals Exclusively With The Physical, And Mind Exclusively With The Metaphysical.

The Future Is A Choice Between Utopia And Oblivion.

Our Brains Deal Exclusively With Special-case Experiences.

Man Is Designed To Be A Comprehensivist .

Pollution Is Merely A Resource That Isn't Being Used Properly.

Unity Is Plural And, At A Minimum, Is Two.

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Nature Does Have Manure And She Does Have Roots As Well As Blossoms, And You Can't Hate The Manure And Blame The Roots For Not Being Blossoms.

You Don't Belong To You. You Belong To The Universe And You're Here To Serve.

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?

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.

Children, As Well As Grown-ups, In Their Individual, Glorified, Drudgery-proof Homes Of Labrador, The Tropics, The Orient, Or Where You Will, To Which They Can Pass With Pleasure And Expedition By Means Of Ever-improving Transportation, Will Be Able To Tune In Their Television And Radio To The Moving Picture Lecture Of, Let Us Say, President Lowell Of Harvard; The Professor Of Mathematics Of Oxford; Of The Doctor Of Indian Antiquities Of Delhi, Etc.

In Order To Change An Existing Paradigm You Do Not Struggle To Try And Change The Problematic Model. You Create A New Model And Make The Old One Obsolete.

The Nearest Each Of Us Can Come To God Is By Loving The Truth.

Everything Can Be Linked Together In Some Fashion, In Either A Physical, Psychological, Or Symbolic Manner.

Humanity Is Now Experiencing History's Most Difficult Evolutionary Transformation.

Right Now I Am A Passenger On Space Vehicle Earth Zooming About The Sun At 60,000 Miles Per Hour Somewhere In The Solar System.

A Pattern Has An Integrity Independent Of The Medium By Virtue Of Which You Have Received The Information That It Exists.

I Would Say, Then, That You Are Faced With A Future In Which Education Is Going To Be Number One Amongst The Great World Industries.

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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.

A Designer Is An Emerging Synthesis Of Artist, Inventor, Mechanic, Objective Economist And Evolutionary Strategist.

Only The Free-wheeling Artist-explorer, Non-academic, Scientist-philosopher, Mechanic, Economist-poet Who Has Never Waited For Patron-starting And Accrediting Of His Co-ordinate Capabilities Holds The Prime Initiative Today.

There Is Only One Revolution Tolerable To All Men, All Societies, All Political Systems: Revolution By Design And Invention.

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Topology Is The Science Of Fundamental Pattern And Structural Relationships Of Event Constellations.

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Dictators Never Invent Their Own Opportunities.

You Either Make Sense Or You Make Money.

A Fool With A Tool Still Remains A Fool.

Thou Mayest As Well Expect To Grow Stronger By Always Eating As Wiser By Always Reading. Too Much Overcharges Nature, And Turns More Into Disease Than Nourishment. 'tis Thought And Digestion Which Makes Books Serviceable, And Give Health And Vigor To The Mind.

We Are Most Probably Here For Local Information-gathering And Local-universe Problem-solving In Support Of The Integrity Of Eternally Regenerative Universe.

There Is Room Enough Indoors In New York City For The Whole 1963 World's Population To Enter, With Room Enough Inside For All Hands To Dance The Twist In Average Nightclub Proximity.

What The Scientists Have Always Found By Physical Experiment Was An A Priori Orderliness Of Nature, Or Universe Always Operating At An Elegance Level That Made The Discovering Scientist's Working Hypotheses Seem Crude By Comparison. The Discovered Reality Made The Scientists Exploratory Work Seem Relatively Disorderly.

Humans Have Always Unknowingly Affected All Universe By Every Act And Thought They Articulate Or Even Consider.

The Wave Is Not The Water. The Water Merely Told Us About The Wave Moving By.

Pollution Is Nothing But Resources We're Not Harvesting.

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. Caught Up In A Plethora Of Conditioned Reflexes And Driven By The Human Ego, Both Warden And Prisoner Attempt Meagerly To Compete With God. All Are Intractably Skeptical Of What They Do Not Understand. We Are Powerfully Imprisoned In These Dark Ages Simply By The Terms In Which We Have Been Conditioned To Think.

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.

A Problem Adequately Stated Is A Problem Solved Theoretically And Immediately, And Therefore Subsequently To Be Solved, Realistically.

Rashness Is The Faithful, But Unhappy Parent Of Misfortune.

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

... Reform The Environment And Not Man; Being Absolutely Confident That If You Give Man The Right Environment, He Will Behave Favorably.

If You Are The Master Be Sometimes Blind, If You Are The Servant Be Sometimes Deaf.

Wealth Is The Product Of Energy Times Intelligence: Energy Turned Into Artifacts That Advantage Human Life.

Never Forget That You Are One Of A Kind. Never Forget That If There Weren't Any Need For You In All Your Uniqueness To Be On This Earth, You Wouldn't Be Here In The First Place.

Our Beds Are Empty Two-thirds Of The Time. Our Living Rooms Are Empty Seven-eighths Of The Time. Our Office Buildings Are Empty One-half Of The Time. It's Time We Gave This Some Thought.

Great Nations Are Simply The Operating Fronts Of Behind-the-scenes, Vastly Ambitious Individuals Who Had Become So Effectively Powerful Because Of Their Ability To Remain Invisible While Operating Behind The National Scenery.

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.

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.

It Is Now Highly Feasible To Take Care Of Everybody On Earth At A 'higher Standard Of Living Than Any Have Ever Known.' It No Longer Has To Be You Or Me. Selfishness Is Unnecessary And Henceforth Unrationalizable As Mandated By Survival.

Every Time Man Makes A New Experiment He Always Learns More. He Cannot Learn Less. He May Learn That What He Thought Was True Was Not True. By The Elimination Of A False Premise, His Basic Capital Wealth Which In His Given Lifetime Is Disembarrassed Of Further Preoccupation With Considerations Of How To Employ A Worthless Time-consuming Hypothesis. Freeing His Time For Its More Effective Exploratory Investment Is To Give Man Increased Wealth.

Thinking Is A Momentary Dismissal Of Irrelevancies.

Universe Is Plural At Minimum Sixfold.

The Reward For Being A Good Problem Solver Is To Be Heaped With More And More Difficult Problems To Solve

Everything We See Is Inside Our Own Heads.

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

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.

Synergy Is The Only Word In Our Language That Means Behavior Of Whole Systems Unpredicted By The Separately Observed Behaviors Of Any Of The System's Separate Parts Or Any Subassembly Of The System's Parts.

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.

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.

I Live On Earth At Present, And I Don’t Know What I Am. I Know That I Am Not A Category. I Am Not A Thing — A Noun. I Seem To Be A Verb, An Evolutionary Process – An Integral Function Of The Universe.

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.

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

You Can't Better The World By Simply Talking To It. Philosophy To Be Effective Must Be Mechanically Applied.

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

Conceptuality Is Subjective; Realization Is Objective.

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.

The Word Generalization In Literature Usually Means Covering Too Much Territory Too Thinly To Be Persuasive, Let Alone Convincing. In Science, However, A Generalization Means A Principle That Has Been Found To Hold True In Every Special Case.... The Principle Of Leverage Is A Scientific Generalization.

Perception Is One Millionth Of One Percent Reality (truth In Fact).

I Call Intuition Cosmic Fishing. You Feel A Nibble, Then You've Got To Hook The Fish.

The True Business Of People Should Be To Go Back To School And Think About Whatever It Was They Were Thinking About Before Somebody Came Along And Told Them They Had To Earn A Living.

Humans Beings Always Do The Most Intelligent Thing…after They’ve Tried Every Stupid Alternative And None Of Them Have Worked

In Order For A World-around Democracy To Prosper, World Society Must Learn How To Prosper.

We Should Stop Kidding Ourselves. We Should Let Go Of Things That Aren't True. It's Always Better With The Truth.

The Impossible Happens.

Havenotness Is Caused By Society's Failure To Design And Produce The Right Tools And Goods. Money Alone Is Not The Panacea.

That Which Is Communicated, I.e., Understood, Is Metaphysical. The Means Of Communication Is Physical.

Geniuses Are Just People Who Had Good Mothers.

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Either War Is Obsolete, Or Men Are.

When I'm Working On A Problem, I Never Think About Beauty. I Think Only How To Solve The Problem.

The Question Of Integrity Will Get Finer And Finer And More Delicate And More Beautiful.

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.

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

I Look For What Needs To Be Done

Here Is An Educational Bombshell: Take From All Of Today's Industrial Nations All Their Industrial Machinery And All Their Energy-distributing Networks, And Leave Them All Their Ideologies, All Their Political Leaders, And All Their Political Organizations, And I Can Tell You That Within Six Months, Two Billion People Will Die Of Starvation, Having Gone Through Great Pain And Deprivation Along The Way.

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.

Whether Humanity Is To Comprehensively Prosper...depends Entirely On The Integrity Of The Human Individuals And Not On The Political And Economic Systems. The Cosmic Question Has Been Asked: Are Humans Worthwhile To Universe Invention?

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.

All Sports Are Time Control Demonstrations.

We Shall Have To Stop Looking Askance On Trends In Relation To Sex Merely As A Reproductive Capability, I.e. That It Is Normal To Make Babies. Society Will Have To Change In Its Assessment Of What The Proclivities Of Humanity May Be. Our Viewpoints On Homosexuality, For Example, May Have To Be Reconsidered And More Wisely Adjusted.

[my Vision Is] To Make The World Work For 100% Of Humanity In The Shortest Possible Time Through Spontaneous Cooperation Without Ecological Offense Or The Disadvantage Of Anyone.

Ninety-nine Per Cent Of Who You Are Is Invisible And Untouchable.

Dear Reader, Traditional Human Power Structures And Their Reign Of Darkness Are About To Be Rendered Obsolete.

Most Of My Advances Were By Mistake. You Uncover What Is When You Get Rid Of What Isn't.

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

By 2000, Politics Will Simply Fade Away. We Will Not See Any Political Parties.

I'm Not A Genius. I'm Just A Tremendous Bundle Of Experience.

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.

None Of The World's Problems Will Have A Solution Until The World's Individuals Become Thoroughly Self-educated.

Human Beings Are The Only Creatures On The Planet That Tell Time And Think They Have To Earn A Living.

Tension Is The Great Integrity.

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

Never Forget That You Are One Of A Kind. Never Forget That If There Weren't Any Need For You In All Your Uniqueness To Be On This Earth, You Wouldn't Be Here In The First Place. And Never Forget, No Matter How Overwhelming Life's Challenges And Problems Seem To Be, That One Person Can Make A Difference In The World. In Fact, It Is Always Because Of One Person That All The Changes That Matter In The World Come About. So Be That One Person.

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.

Life Is The Spirit Incarnate In Time.

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.

...doing More With Less.

Racism, Pollution And The Rest Of It Are Themselves Very Close To Extinction.

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

No Man Can Prove Upon Awakening That He Is The Man Who He Thinks Went To Bed The Night Before, Or That Anything That He Recollects Is Anything Other Than A Convincing Dream.

The Eternal Is Omniembracing And Permeative; And The Temporal Is Linear. This Opens Up A Very High Order Of Generalizations Of Generalizations. The Truth Could Not Be More Omni-important, Although It Is Often Manifestly Operative Only As A Linear Identification Of A Special-case Experience On A Specialized Subject.

There Are Over 2 Million Cars Standing In Front Of Red Lights With Their Engines Going. Then We Have Over 2 Million Times Approximately 100 Horsepower Being Generated As They Are Idling There, So That We Have Something Like 200 Million Horses Jumping Up And Down And Going Nowhere. Now, We Have To Count That In Our Economy When We Begin To Get Down To What Is The Efficiency Of The Economy.

We Are Called To Be Architects Of The Future, Not Its Victims.

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

I Am A Passenger On The Spaceship Earth.

Here Is God's Purpose - For God, To Me, It Seems, Is A Verb Not A Noun, Proper Or Improper; Is The Articulation Not The Art, Objective Or Subjective; Is Loving, Not The Abstraction "love" Commanded Or Entreated; Is Knowledge Dynamic, Not Legislative Code, Not Proclamation Law, Not Academic Dogma, Not Ecclesiastic Canon. Yes, God Is A Verb, The Most Active, Connoting The Vast Harmonic Reordering Of The Universe From Unleashed Chaos Of Energy.

A New, Self-employed Architect Scientist Is The One In All The World Who May Accelerate Realization Of A High-standard Survival For All, As Now Completely Practical Within The Scope Of Available Technology.

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.

Humanity Is Acquiring All The Right Technology For All The Wrong Reasons.

You Can Rest Assured That If You Devote Your Time And Attention To The Highest Advantage Of Others, The Universe Will Support You, Always And Only In The Nick Of Time.

Television Is The Third Parent.

I See God In The Instruments And The Mechanisms That Work Reliably, More Reliably Than The Limited Sensory Departments Of The Human Mechanism.

Since The Initial Publication Of The Chart Of The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Humans Have Learned That What They Can Touch, Smell, See, And Hear Is Less Than One-millionth Of Reality. Ninety- Nine Percent Of All That Is Going To Affect Our Tomorrows Is Being Developed By Humans Using Instruments And Working In Ranges Of Reality That Are Nonhumanly Sensible.

On Personal Integrity Hangs Humanity's Fate

The More For Whom We Strive To Serve, The Greater Effectiveness We Will Have.

I Just Invent, Then Wait Until Man Comes Around To Needing What I've Invented.

We Are In An Age That Assumes The Narrowing Trends Of Specialization To Be Logical, Natural, And Desirable. Consequently, Society Expects All Earnestly Responsible Communication To Be Crisply Brief.... In The Meantime, Humanity Has Been Deprived Of Comprehensive Understanding.

The Word Synergy Comes From The Greek Sin-ergo, Meaning, To Work Together. It Describes A Mutually Supportive Atmosphere Of Trust, Where Each Individual Element Works Towards Its Own Goals, And Where The Goals May Be Quite Varied; Nevertheless, Because All Elements Of A Synergetic System Support One Another, They Also Support The Whole.

All Human Advances Occur In The Outlaw Area.

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? We May Now Care For Each Earthian Individual At A Sustainable Billionaire's Level Of Affluence While Living Exclusively On Less Than 1 Percent Of Our Planet's Daily Energy Income From Our Cosmically Designed Nuclear Reactor, The Sun, Optimally Located 92 Million Safe Miles Away From Us.

If You Want To Teach People A New Way Of Thinking, Don't Bother Trying To Teach Them. Instead, Give Them A Tool, The Use Of Which Will Lead To New Ways Of Thinking.

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

We Are Prisoners Of Our Own Metaphors, Metaphorically Speaking.

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Love Is Omni-inclusive, Progressively Exquisite, Understanding And Compassionately Attuned To Other Than Self.

Ideas Are Easy To Come By; Reduction To Practice Is An Arduous But Inspirationally Rewarding Matter.

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

There Is No Such Thing As A Failed Experiment, Only Experiments With Unexpected Outcomes.

When I Am Working On A Problem, I Never Think About Beauty But When I Have Finished, If The Solution Is Not Beautiful, I Know It Is Wrong.

The Purpose Of Our Lives Is To Add Value To The People Of This Generation And Those That Follow.

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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