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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

Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity Law Men
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
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integration Life Love
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Human Planets Thinking
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Environmental Humanity Mind
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
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
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.
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Order Survival Tasks
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
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.
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Children New Relationship Technology
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Country Day Military Peace People
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Inspirational Yesterday