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Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Experiments Men More
Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Gravity Love Is Metaphysical
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Look Up Looks
We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Integrity Mean Support
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?
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Change Degrees Diminishing Question
He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Children Everyday Look Tomorrow
Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Mind Nature Nourishment Vigor
Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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Additional Problem Solved Unknown
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Humanity Inspirational Yesterday
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Inspirational Learning Life Trying
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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Design Order Priorities
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Book Earth Important
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Humanity Overlapping Universe