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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 will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Support War Wisdom
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
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
We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Frequently People Self
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
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inspirational Learning Life Trying
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Able Humanity Joy
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Crush Order
There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Choices Spontaneous
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
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Go Letting Life Should
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Giving Men Reform
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Mistakes Sports
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Feeling Increased Wealth
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Experience Genius Life Lesson