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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Needs Tasks Thinking
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
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Peace Planets Spectacular
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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Horse Two Years
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Radiation Together
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
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

Learning Men Science
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Long Men Sports
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity Law Men
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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Environment He Man Men
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas