"The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual."

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor

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"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."

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"If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions."

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"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

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"Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing."

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

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"The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth."

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"Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery."

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"Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease."

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"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

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"God is a verb, not a noun."

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"I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself."

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"If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference."

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"What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities."

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"Either war is obsolete, or men are."

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"Tension is the great integrity."

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