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1. "The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile." ~ Alvin Toffler
2. "A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study." - Chinese proverb" ~ Alvin Toffler
3. "To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. 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. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources." ~ Alvin Toffler
4. "Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back." - Chinese proverb" ~ Alvin Toffler
5. "Mereka yang disebut buta huruf (illiterate) di abad ke-21 bukanlah orang-orang yang tidak bisa membaca dan menulis, namun mereka yang tidak bisa belajar (learn), menanggalkan pelajaran sebelumnya (un-learn), dan belajar kembali (re-learn)." ~ Alvin Toffler
6. "By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: ‘The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction—how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn." ~ Alvin Toffler
7. "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
8. "Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time." ~ Alvin Toffler
9. "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
10. "One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition." ~ Alvin Toffler
11. "Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life." ~ Alvin Toffler
12. "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
13. "It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution." ~ Alvin Toffler
14. "Knowledge is the most democratic source of power." ~ Alvin Toffler
15. "Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate." ~ Alvin Toffler
16. "Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them." ~ Alvin Toffler
17. "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." ~ Alvin Toffler
18. "Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock." ~ Alvin Toffler
19. "Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats." ~ Alvin Toffler
20. "Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it." ~ Alvin Toffler
21. "Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur." ~ Alvin Toffler
22. "Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible." ~ Alvin Toffler
23. "The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets." ~ Alvin Toffler
24. "The great growling engine of change - technology." ~ Alvin Toffler
25. "I work virtually every waking hour." ~ Alvin Toffler
26. "My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace." ~ Alvin Toffler
27. "The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46." ~ Alvin Toffler

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Think about the holes children make when they dig in the sand on the seashore. When the waves come in, the holes are swallowed up by the ocean. Similarly, when we know Christ, our physical death is overwhelmed by the love and grace of God. Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ."
Author: Billy Graham

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