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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

When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Beauty Creativity Thinking
In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Horse Two Years
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Boards Earth Four
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inspirational Integrity Success
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Minimum Plural Universe
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Philosophy Talking World
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Change Degrees Diminishing Question
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
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….
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Fate Peace Ubuntu
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Balance Lines Physics
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
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
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
The opposite of nature is impossible.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Impossible Opposites Technology
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