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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

I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Love Lying Three
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Business Ignorant Littering
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Errors Progressive Truth
Some of us are just less damaged than others.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Damaged Learning Others
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Forever Humanity Spiritual
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Metaphor Metaphorically Prisoner
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.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Clouds People Sky
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Dog Politician Tails
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Doctors Medicine Men
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
The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.
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Beautiful Delicate Integrity
…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Home Individual Study
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Copies Principles Trying
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
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Challenges Decisions Mistakes
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Able Humanity Joy