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If you think in terms of people divided up into countries, you won't follow me. The idea of countries is going by the boards. Young people are getting wonderfully uprooted and they're too strong to get sucked into this 'country' crap.

— 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.

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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.

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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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