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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

Alvin Toffler

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Civilization Men Trying
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
Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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Committed Jobs People Play Satisfaction
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
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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Data Provoking Thought Wisdom
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Change Future Spiritual
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
Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Birth Giving Mates
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
A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
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Libraries Books Library Mind Reading
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Inspire Parenthood Parenting
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.
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Challenges Civilization Criticism
Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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Individual Information Suffering
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
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
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Economic Expression Political
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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Encouraging Inspirational Inspiring

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

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