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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.

Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
Architect
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Brooklyn
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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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We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.
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Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.
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We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.
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Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.
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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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You don't need to get rid of religion you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.
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Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?
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If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.
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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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If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
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People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.
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We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?
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The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.
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War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences. From a strictly pragmatic standpoint, it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.
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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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To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.
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It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.
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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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