"Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."

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."

Joan D. Vinge, American Author

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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."

Abba Eban, Israeli Diplomat

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"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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"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."

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Scientist

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"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."

Black Elk, American Leader

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"I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth."

Neil Armstrong, American Astronaut

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"There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it."

Wilson Greatbatch, American Inventor

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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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."

Stendhal, French Writer

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"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."

Shirley Chisholm, American Politician

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"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

Nothing

"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."

Ability

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

Needs

"Either war is obsolete, or men are."

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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 I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

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"Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking."

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

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"I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience."

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