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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
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Earning Living Notion
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Degrees Devil Play
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Book Humanity Reading
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
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Determine Initiative Self Spring
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Business Ignorant Littering
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
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Able Humanity Joy
Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
You can’t learn less.
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Education Inspirational Teacher
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
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
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Animal Dimension Nature Space
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More