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We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future.

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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Engineer
Futurist
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Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Jacques загадочник Fresco
Paradise
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The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
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Wiser, never wise. Smarter, never smart.
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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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All the world's people should share all the world's resources.
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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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If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That's love
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We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.
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If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.
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There is no way you can think outside of your culture.
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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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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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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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It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.
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Truly free people do not need to be told they are free.
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You know that you can't go out there and change the world tomorrow morning. It just takes time, and the realization of that does not produce frustration. What produces frustration, is when you expect the world to join with your cause it's so reasonable. It is not reasonable to unreasonable people.
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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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So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last?
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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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