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

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Gold Lead Often Silver
You can’t learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Education Inspirational Teacher
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Communication Humanity Understanding
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
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
Controlled time is our true wealth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Self Understanding
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Else Journey Life Somewhere
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
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenges Decisions Mistakes
Pollution is merely a resource that isn’t being used properly.
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Pollution Resources Used
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Special Thinking Trying
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