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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

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
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Country Jobs Wisdom
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
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Clothes Embroidery Suits
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Following Kind Thinking
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Fate Humanity Integrity
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Confidence Esteem Humanity Self
God is a verb, not a noun.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

God Nouns Verbs
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
Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Environment He Man Men
Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Knows Plus Thinking
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Minimum Plural Universe
All sports are time control demonstrations.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Demonstration Sports
Doing more with less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Doing Less More
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Environmental Inspirational Space