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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Nine Ninety Wisdom
I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Conformity Creativity Integrity
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenges Space Technology
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Numbers Obvious
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
Doing more with less.
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Doing Less More
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Blind Management Sometimes
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Order Survival Tasks
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Else Journey Life Somewhere
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
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity Law Men
And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Economic Examination Government Individual
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Eye Feel Good Philosophy
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenge Change Difference Matter Person