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The tremendous and still

The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods … Read more

I’m a small-town guy,

I’m a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment. Adam Dunn

A sentence is born

A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.
Rachel Cusk

Insanity is a perfectly

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.
R. D. Laing

We all live under

We all live under the constant threat of our own annihilation. Only by the most outrageous violation of ourselves have we achieved our capacity to live in relative adjustment to a civilization apparently driven to its own destruction.
R. D. Laing

Insanity – a perfectly

Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
R. D. Laing

So long as mathematicians

So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.
R. Buckminster Fuller