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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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
- The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
- It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
- 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…
- I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able…
- Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet…
- The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious…
- 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…
- 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…
- You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.
- Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.
- 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…
- With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get…
- 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…
- All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
- 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.
- Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of…
- Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle