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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

True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Laws Physical Satisfaction True
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Better Get Little Machine Politically
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Dream Men Thinking
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

People School Thinking
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Belong Serve Universe
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Needs Tasks Thinking
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
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
We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Age Dark Thinking
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inspirational Motivational World