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Alvin Toffler
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 4
Died: 2016
Died: June 27
Futures Studies
Futurist
Journalist
Pedagogue
Science Fiction Writer
Sociologist
Writer
New York City
New York
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Every
Virtually
Waking
Hour
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The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production
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If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.
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