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The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
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Earth Passenger Spaceships
The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Goal Greek Support
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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Diversity Fate Success
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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Inspirational Integrity Success
Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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Earth Humanity Successfully
The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Knows Littles Realizing
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession – not conscious planning – provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.
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Humanity Military Political
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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Humanity Men Unique
We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.
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Home Jobs People Petroleum Producing
[My vision is] To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.
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Humanity Vision World
All sports are time control demonstrations.
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Demonstration Sports
I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Experience Genius Life Lesson
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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Genius Mother People
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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Challenges Decisions Mistakes
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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Behavior Humanity Social Tasks
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Hungry Long Race