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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

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Determine Initiative Self Spring
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Peace Tools War
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Beautiful Sleep Typewriters
And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenge Change Difference Matter Person
In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Democracy Order World
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Events Fundamental Pattern
All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Born Genius Technology
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Faithful Parent Unhappy
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Finals Humanity Race
I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Needs Relevant Wells
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Gold Lead Often Silver
Man knows so much and does so little.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Hypocrisy Men Sad
I look for what needs to be done
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Art Looks Needs