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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

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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Enduringly Humanity Less Reached Technology
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Radiation Together
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Differences Humanity Integrity
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Country Jobs Wisdom
Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Giving Men Reform
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Age Dark Thinking
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Men Unique
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Eternal Immortality Pattern Principles
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Environmental Inspirational Space
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Action Adequate Care
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 obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Numbers Obvious
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes