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

R. Buckminster Fuller

Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Done Humans Instead Really Society
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inspirational Life People
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Errors Progressive Truth
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Eternal Immortality Pattern Principles
Man knows so much and does so little.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Hypocrisy Men Sad
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Fate Humanity Integrity
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Divorce Education Lost Love
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Doctors Medicine Men
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Emergencies Enough Ideas
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
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Infinitely Intellectual Laws Made Man
We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

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