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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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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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Brooklyn
New York
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If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will
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The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete.
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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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Your frame of reference is what you see.
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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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Let's teach our children to be thinkers.
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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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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 make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.
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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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There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.
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It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.
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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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The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals requiring only the intelligent application of what we already know. The only limitations are those which we impose upon ourselves.
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Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.
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If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That's love
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Merely complaining without proposing an alternative offers nothing.
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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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You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.
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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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