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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Human Planets Thinking
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
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Military Political
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Selfishness Standard Technology War
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Beautiful Beauty Niece Problem
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
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
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Long Men Sports
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Guitar Leadership Strength
Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Generalized Giving Mind Special
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Finals Humanity Race
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Copies Principles Trying
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Degrees Devil Play
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Energy Inspirational Motivational