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We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Age Dark Thinking
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
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
And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Economic Examination Government Individual
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.
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Done Needs Things
The individual can take initiatives without anybody’s permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Environment Initiative Thinking
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Dog Politician Tails
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Peace Tools War
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Earth Nouns Verbs
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
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

Blessed Technology Thinking
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inspirational Motivational World
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Look Up Looks
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

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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Numbers Obvious