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

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

Earth, Forget, Light

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

Voltaire, French Writer

Earth, Opinion, Trouble

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Earth, Race

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Earth, Rights, Minority

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Earth, Ugly

"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

John Jay Chapman, American Poet

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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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"Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune."

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"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."

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"Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't."

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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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"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."

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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."

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

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

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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."

"Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune."

"If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf."

"Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't."

"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."

"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it."

"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"Truth is a tendency."

"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."