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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

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Circle Philosophy Want
Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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Done Humans Instead Really Society
And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Economic Examination Government Individual
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inspirational Learning Life Trying
To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

America Order Years
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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Dog Politician Tails
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Learning Men Science
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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Minimum Plural Universe
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenges Space Technology
Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Ability Person Wealth
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Look Up Looks
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
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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Inspirational Life People
Controlled time is our true wealth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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People School Thinking