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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Moving Water Wave
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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Beautiful Sleep Typewriters
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Damaged Learning Others
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
Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Long Men Sports
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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Copies Principles Trying
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Events Fundamental Pattern
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
True democracy discovers by patient experiment and unanimous acknowledgement what the laws of nature or universe may be for the physical support and metaphysical satisfaction of the human intellect’s function in universe.
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Laws Physical Satisfaction True
I’m not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.
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Special Thinking Trying
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Incarnate Life Spirit
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
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
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
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Coping Earth Spaceship

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