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What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad — or as positive and negative — are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.

— Buckminster Fuller Critical Path (1981)

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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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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

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