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I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
Architect
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You have to take in the whole picture, and ask, What is it you want? What kind of world do you want? So, I have drawings of different cities. Those cities have an end goal they're not just cities. The end goal of those cities is to make things relevant to people that they respond to. There's no other way.
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Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.
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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.
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If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will
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Anthropology studies different cultures mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. There is no field that you can study today that isn't trapped in the culture in some way. It's hard to escape your culture.
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Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.
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The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking
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If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.
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As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.
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The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture.
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The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.
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If there's a group like Amish people, that want to live their own lifestyle – they don't want to live in our city – they want to live out in the country, with their own projects. We’ll put up the buildings for them, design the buildings for them, design the food production systems for them – if they want us to. But we don’t control them.
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Laws do not stop crime they merely make noise about crime. They say 'Don't take anything that doesn't belong to you'. Well, that doesn't do anything.
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We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.
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You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.
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The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.
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There isn't anything that is said that 'someone' won't take issue with.
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You don't see the plug connected to the environment, so it looks like we're free, wandering around. Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately. Take plant life away, we die. And without the sun, all the plants die. So we are connected.
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The teachings or the information in the Venus project is not what Jacque Fresco dictates. It’s first doing a survey of the carrying capacity of a given environment and maintaining a population in accordance of the Earth's resources, not Fresco's opinion.
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The government means industry, if you know what I mean.
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