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We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
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There is no way you can think outside of your culture.
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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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It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.
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We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.
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Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.
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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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Nicola Tesla didn't say, 'I have to make wireless electricity!' The brain does not work that way.
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The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.
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If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
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You can't be conscious unless you have variable receptors... When people say the way I see the world is the way it is - that's ridiculous. We can only see it depending on the quality of our receptors and background.
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The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.
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We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.
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Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.
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It’s your own expectations that hurt you. Not the world you live in. Whatever happens in the world is real. What you think should happen is unreal. So people are hurt by their expectations. You know , you’re not disappointed by the world, you are disappointed by your own projections.
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If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That's love
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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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We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.
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If you remain conventional and don't change, you'll get along. You'll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You'll never be able to keep a marriage together, you'll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn't together.
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We are all victims of culture.
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The future is our responsibility, but change will not take place until the majority loose confidence in their dictator’s and elected officials’ ability to solve problems. It will likely take an economic catastrophe resulting in enormous human suffering to bring about true social change.
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