"We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. Â I am a futurist. Â I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently."

-- Jacque Fresco

#Technology Quotes #Earth Quotes #Paradise Quotes

“I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.”

Source : Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.50
“The status quo is simply unacceptable.”
“In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.”
“There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only in moments of silence, which are rare and brief, that their beat can be faintly discerned. There are other times. These are the times when God is heard in rolling thunder, when the earth trembles and the treetops bend under the force of [Godâ€™s] voice. It is not given to men [and women] to make God speak. It is only given to them to live and to think in such a way that, if Godâ€™s thunder should come, they will not have stopped their ears.”
“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.”
“You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.”
“Embryonic cells, by their very definition, are not from your body. Right now, inside your body, you have everything necessary to build what you need now.”
“Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?”

Source : Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.59, Tiger L.L.C.

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