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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Needs Tasks Thinking
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Earth Space Sun System Zooming
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
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Ideas Inspirational Real
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Design Tools Wisdom
Controlled time is our true wealth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Controlled Inspirational True Wealth
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Copies Principles Trying
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
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Buried Impose Individual Inside Superfacila
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.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Mistakes Sports
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
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
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Order Survival Tasks
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
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