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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

Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Differences Humanity Integrity
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.
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Needs Tasks Thinking
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Better Get Little Machine Politically
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Gathering Integrity Support
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
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
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth.
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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.
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Giving Men Reform