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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

R. Buckminster Fuller

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Politics Way Wisdom
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Peace Tools War
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
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Immediately Problem Realistically
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Order Survival Tasks
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Book Earth Important
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.
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Computer Men Technology
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Degrees Fundamental Reliability