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The procedure we are pursuing is that of true democracy. Semi-democracy accepts the dictatorship of a majority in establishing its arbitrary, ergo, unnatural, laws.

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
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
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
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
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
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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Children New Relationship Technology
This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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Buried Impose Individual Inside Superfacila
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.
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Progress Reason Stage
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 known.
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Successful Technology Years
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
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