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Realizing the direct competition with foreign industry on a straight labor basis will mean swiftly decreasing wages per hour and longer hours and decreasing buying power of the public.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Progress Reason Stage
There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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Hippie People Thinking
Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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Brain Metaphysical Mind
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
You can’t learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Education Inspirational Teacher
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
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity Mean Support
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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Eternal Immortality Pattern Principles
The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
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
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race
The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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Events Simultaneously Universe
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Special Thinking Trying
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

High Men Politics Standard
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad