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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
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
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... reform the environment and not man being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
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