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R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.



In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.



There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.



Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.



Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.

Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.



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.

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.



We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.



You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.



Love is metaphysical gravity.

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