“You can either have one guy lifting a billion pounds by himself, and it takes many years of planning and preparation - or you can have a billion people, each lifting one pound, and it takes a mere moment. This is the power of unity.”

—  Jacque Fresco

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American futurist and self-described social engineer 1916–2017

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