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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.

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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Giving People Thinking
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
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Challenges Space Technology
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
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Love Self Understanding
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Children Design Men
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Peace Tools War
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
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
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
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.
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Done Needs Things
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
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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Believe Blind Men Spots