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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Forever Humanity Spiritual
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
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
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Law Past Thinking
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Action Adequate Care
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Humanity Look Up Looks
Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth….
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Fate Peace Ubuntu
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
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.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
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
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Gun Moving War