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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

R. Buckminster Fuller

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Earning Living Notion
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Acting Peace Venture
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Knows Littles Realizing
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
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Finals Humanity Race
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Peace Tools War
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
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Difficult Problem Rewards
Never show unfinished work.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Shows Unfinished Work
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.
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Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Inexplicable Mystical Obvious
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
The opposite of nature is impossible.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Impossible Opposites Technology
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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Balance Lines Physics
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Lying Three