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Although we accept the inevitability of change, humans meet it with a lot of resistance. In most cases, change threatens those in positions of advantage and for the most part they are there in the first place to keep things the way they are.

— Jacque Fresco Designing the Future (2007)

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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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Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

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When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to human potential.

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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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Yet at every turn, vested interests (those who have the most to gain in keeping things the way they are) oppose even technological changes... And so it goes.

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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

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To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

Robert F. Kennedy

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

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