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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

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
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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Immediately Problem Realistically
I look for what needs to be done
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Art Looks Needs
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Lying Three
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Communication Humanity Understanding
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
… 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
Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Believe Blind Men Spots
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
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Democracy Order World
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
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Gold Lead Often Silver
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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People School Thinking
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
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
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Dog Politician Tails