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Realistic thinking accrues only after mistake making, which is the cosmic wisdom's most cogent way of teaching each of us how to carry on.

— Buckminster Fuller

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure (1999)

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

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