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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

R. Buckminster Fuller

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Politics Way Wisdom
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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Children Competence Enormous
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Difficult Problem Rewards
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
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Blind Management Sometimes
When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Acting Peace Venture
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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Emergencies Enough Ideas
Television is the third parent.
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Parent Television Thirds
… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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Giving Men Reform
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Beauty Creativity Thinking
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Special Thinking Trying
History’s political and economic power structures have always abhorred ‘idle people’ as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.
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Clouds People Sky