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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Choices Spontaneous
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Experiments Men More
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Experience Genius Life Lesson
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Action Adequate Care
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Law Past Thinking
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
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Knows Plus Thinking
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Age Dark Thinking
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
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Mind Strong Women Well Known
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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Home Individual Study
Man knows so much and does so little.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Hypocrisy Men Sad
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Moving Water Wave
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Degrees Devil Play