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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.

~Alvin Toffler

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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.

~Alvin Toffler

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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

~Alvin Toffler

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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

~Alvin Toffler

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Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

~Alvin Toffler

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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

~Alvin Toffler

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Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

~Alvin Toffler

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One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

~Alvin Toffler

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People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

~Alvin Toffler

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We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots religion, nation, community, family, or profession are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust.

~Alvin Toffler

Topics: Anchor Community Family Hurricane Impact Must Nation New New Ways Now Old Ourselves Out Profession Religion Roots Search Shaking Thrust Totally Ways

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: October 4th, 1928

Died: June 27th, 2016

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