"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."

R. Buckminster Fuller, American Inventor

Earth, Fate

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"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."

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

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Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

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"Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth."

Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian Author

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