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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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Go Letting Life Should
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Beautiful Sleep Typewriters
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
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.
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Learning Men Science
The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
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Environment Initiative Thinking
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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Designer Done Jobs
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Beauty Creativity Thinking
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
The opposite of nature is impossible.
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Impossible Opposites Technology
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
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.
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Giving People Thinking