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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Special Thinking Trying
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Immediately Problem Realistically
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Progress Reason Stage
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Peace Planets Spectacular
God is a verb, not a noun.
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God Nouns Verbs
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
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
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Gun Moving War
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Guitar Leadership Strength
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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Children Mistakes Sports
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Go Letting Life Should
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Born Children Genius
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Consessus Experiencxe Science
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
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Child Children Newborn Years