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History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Ability Person Wealth
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Done Needs Things
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
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
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
Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity People Political
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Earning Living Notion
You can’t learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Education Inspirational Teacher
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Design Political World
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Design Tools Wisdom
It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Consessus Experiencxe Science
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Humanity Overlapping Universe
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Eye Feel Good Philosophy
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?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Change Degrees Diminishing Question
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Change Inspirational Success