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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

If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Design Men
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Faithful Parent Unhappy
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Progress Reason Stage
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
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.
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Forever Humanity Spiritual
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Degrees Devil Play
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
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Change Degrees Diminishing Question
Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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Coping Earth Spaceship
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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Spectacular Vices Virtue
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Gathering Integrity Support
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Difficult Humanity Transformation
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Peace Tools War
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Animal Dimension Nature Space
The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Inspirational Motivational World