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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

I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Love Radiation Together
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Ability Power Success
Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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Animal Dimension Nature Space
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
Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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Errors Progressive Truth
The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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Effectiveness Greater Striving
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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Children Firsts Years
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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Clothes Embroidery Suits
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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Human Planets Thinking
Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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Antithesis Mind Reflexes
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Environment People
Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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Continous Programming Tensegrity
All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Conditioned Imprisoned Think Understand
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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Jobs Numbers Politics
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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Doctors Medicine Men
I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
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Earth Nouns Verbs
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Fate Humanity Integrity
You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Philosophy Talking World
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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Feet Firsts Mistakes Repeat
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Country Jobs Wisdom
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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People School Thinking
For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.
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High Men Politics Standard
And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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Better Get Little Machine Politically