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Ralph Merkle

"The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now."

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"The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now."

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"Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive."

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"The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler."

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"...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to toss it away so arbitrarily! But nature could not care less what we think about it, and as far as talent is concerned, there is such an excess that our artists will soon become their own audiences, and audiences made up of ordinary people will no longer exist."

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"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

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"We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile."

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"Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level."

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"Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length."

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"As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity."

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