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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.

Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
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We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.
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There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions.
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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 are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
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Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?
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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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If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?
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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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The social designs that are proposed in [The Venus Project] merely provide the opportunity for individuals to develop their fullest potential in whatever endeavor they choose without the fear of loss of individuality or submission to uniformity.
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The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot the wrong questions The question has never been: Do we have the money? The question has always been: Do we have the resources?
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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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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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When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include the possibility of this development in our overall, social evolution we will witness the decline of our species
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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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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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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.
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And you can't find love because in order to find love you have to be capable of dishing it out. In order to be capable of giving love, your own life has to be in harmony with everything else, and that's not attainable.
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Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.
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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 have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.
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