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Motion is a great tranquilizer.
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Anything goes and nothing matters.
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Anything Goes
Matter
Nothing Matters
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Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.
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Destiny
Ridicule
Ridiculous
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Societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.
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I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed.
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Believe
Fixed
I Believe
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The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today.
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Cities
Today
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Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.
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Forget
Tomorrow
Yesterday
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America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.
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America
Cash
Doe
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Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.
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Twenty-First
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It pays to remember that societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.
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Deserve
Pay
Remember
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Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.
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Cartoon
Country
House
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I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.
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Intelligent
Response
Solutions
Talking
Prefer
Talking Like About
Responses
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Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.
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Three
Way
Yards
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The earth is a fickle place for all life, not least the human project of civilization.
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Fickle
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The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.
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America
Inspiration
Motivation
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Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.
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Development
Energy
Regimes
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At the heart of our misunderstanding and infantile behavior is the wish for a miracle cure.
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Heart
Miracle
Wish
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The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.
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Age
Scales
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I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.
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Population
Thinking
Trends
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Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.
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Home
Doubt
Two
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American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.
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Diet
American Cities
Cities
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For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.
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Affordable Housing
Common
World
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A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.
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Caring
Land
May
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I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.
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Headings
Progress
Technological
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The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.
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Century
Firsts
Twenties
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I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a 'time out' from technological progress as we know it.
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Technological Progress
Heading
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It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there.
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Cities
Important
Kind
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We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes.
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Car
Home
Office
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I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.
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Energy
Kyoto
Thinking
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When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.
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Delusional
Stressed
Thinking
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The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.
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Economic
Hardship
Years
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The living arrangements American now think of as normal are bankrupting us economically, socially, ecologically and spiritually.
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Arrangements
Normal
Thinking
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We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.
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Example
House
May
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I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
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Agents
Artist
Fiction
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No amount or combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to continue running what we're running, the way we're running it.
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Running
Alternatives
Fuel
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Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.
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Class
Energy
Gains
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In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.
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Cities
Successful
Towns
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I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.
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Optimistic
Skyscraper
Suited
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The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.
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Reality
Tasks
Way
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Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.
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Running
Biodiesel
Fuel
Suburbia
Tourists
Wind
Solar
Tourist
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The salient fact about the decades ahead is that we are entering a permanent global energy crisis and it will change everything about how we live.
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Energy
Entering
Facts
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The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things
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Cities
Distance
Two
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History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!
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Choices
Intelligent
Hole
Merciless
Pound
Rat
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My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.
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Painting
Skills
Two
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The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.
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Behave
Human Race
Ought
Reflect
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The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous, but I feel that I have been unusually sensitive to the issue of place since I was a little boy.
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Sensitive
Apt
Unusually
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The Hamas organization is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That is not a rhetorical gimmick; it is its declared unwavering primary goal.
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Dedicated
Destruction
Hamas
Organization
Rhetorical
Unwavering
Explicitly
Gimmick
Primary
Primary Goal
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I believe our techno-zealotry will be moderated by sheer circumstance. We will do what reality compels us to do, not necessarily what our fantasies propose.
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Believe
Fantasy
Reality
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In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.
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Government
Mind
Thinking
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We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.
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Attention
Growing
Mean
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