Jacque Fresco Quotes
As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.'
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.
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Without electricity, the air would rot.
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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
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Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
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The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.
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I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.
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The music that I listen to is very minimalistic. I listen to a lot of old blues that is just guitar and vocals.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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The best part of basketball, for those people on the inside, is the bus going to the airport after you've won a game on an opponent's floor. It's been a very tough battle. And preferably, in the playoffs. And that feeling that you have, together as a group, having gone to an opponent's floor and won a very good victory, is as about as high as you can get.
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As we begin to plan for a new human society, we need to foster common values about clean air, water, and other elements of self-sustenance. These, along with a complete inventory of Earth's resources, will form the basis for a holistic approach to cybernated decision-making.
