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We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Moving Water Wave
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Money People Want
Never show unfinished work.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Shows Unfinished Work
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Self Understanding
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Earning Living Notion
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Light People Ships
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
God is a verb, not a noun.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

God Nouns Verbs
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Child Children Newborn Years
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Blind Management Sometimes
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Computer Men Technology
It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Computer Home Stay Universe
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Change Inspirational Success
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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Inadvertently Integrity May Special
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Philosophy Talking World