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

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Love is metaphysical gravity.

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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

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

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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

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

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War is the ultimate tool of politics.

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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

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God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

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God is a verb, not a noun.

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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

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Man knows so much and does so little.

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Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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Truth is a tendency.

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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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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

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