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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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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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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.
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If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them.
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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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The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.
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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 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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It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.
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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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Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.
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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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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 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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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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Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.
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If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?
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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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The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.
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There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.
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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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