Jacque Fresco Quotes
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
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I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.
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The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.
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Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
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Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
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Our dominant values that emphasize competition and scarcity limit continued progress.
