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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Self Understanding
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Special Thinking Trying
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.
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Knows Plus Thinking
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Money People Want
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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Change Giving Thinking
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.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Damaged Learning Others
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
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Belong Serve Universe
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Giving People Thinking