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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.

Alvin Toffler

Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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Betray Education Spring Youth
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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Education Illiterate Person Teaching
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
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
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Change Future Management Order
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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Science Talking Together
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
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Information Space Substitutes
The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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Difficult Process Producers
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.
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Dream Needs Vision
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
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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Cycles Faster Pace
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Change Future Spiritual

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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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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