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Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.

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
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Frequently People Self
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Dream Men Thinking
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Experience Genius Life Lesson
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Long Men Sports
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Learning Men Science
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
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
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
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
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Look Up Looks
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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Computer Men Technology
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Mistake More Smarter