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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

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
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
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
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
Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Energy Inspirational Motivational
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Clothes Embroidery Suits
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
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
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Change Inspirational Success
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Fate Humanity Integrity
It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Consessus Experiencxe Science
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenges Decisions Mistakes
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
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Peace Planets Spectacular
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