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We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.

Jacque Fresco

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Jacque Fresco
Age: 101 †
Born: 1916
Born: March 13
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
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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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Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.
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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.
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All the world's people should share all the world's resources.
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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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Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
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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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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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I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?
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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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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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There isn't anything that is said that 'someone' won't take issue with.
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The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking
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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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Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.
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There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.
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Creativity is taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways
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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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It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.
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