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It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.

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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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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If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.
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We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.
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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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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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