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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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.
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Giving People Thinking
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 behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
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Economic Examination Government Individual
Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Enduringly Humanity Less Reached Technology
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.
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Earth Space Sun System Zooming
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 another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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Integrity Law Men
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Age Dark Thinking
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.
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Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
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Following Kind Thinking
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Democracy Order World
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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Diversity Fate Success