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Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Guitar Leadership Strength
[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inadvertently Integrity May Special
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Jobs Numbers Politics
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

Eternal Immortality Pattern Principles
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Dark Persistence Thinking
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Vision World
Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Heart Integrity Self
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

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

Moving Water Wave
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
The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children New Relationship Technology
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Mind Strong Women Well Known
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Additional Problem Solved Unknown
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.
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Knows Plus Thinking
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Emergencies Enough Ideas