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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Alvin Toffler

In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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Change Communication Fire
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Firsts Survival Yesterday
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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Civilization Creative Humanity Restructuring Wave
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man’s ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.
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Basic Hinger Immediate Information Respond
Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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Cutting Kings Knights
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.
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Anger Real Society
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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Breathing Change Perspective
The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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Civilization Political Technology
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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Experts People Vision
Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Knows Profit Sausage
The responsibility for change…lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.
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Lying Responsibility Teaching

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