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The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
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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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Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways
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We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy for science to make a substitute material. There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.
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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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As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.
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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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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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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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Your frame of reference is what you see.
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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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I'd declare all the world's resources as a common heritage of all the world's people and get them to join and become one nation who takes care of the environment, the earth, the atmosphere. I'd abolish all separate nations because they are all corrupt.
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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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Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.
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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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If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them.
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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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I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
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If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.
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Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?
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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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