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“No great city has an abundance of parking.”
― Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
― Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
“A Tibetan aphorism states, “Let your mind be a gracious host in the midst of unruly guests.”
― The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind
― The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind
“Animosity towards the automobile was so great that in 1906 Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, declared, “Possession of an auto car is such an ostentatious display of wealth that it will stimulate socialism.”16”
― Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
― Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
“All fiction has ethical, political, and social weight, and sometimes the works that weigh the heaviest are those apparently fluffy or escapist fictions whose authors declare themselves "above politics," "just entertainers," and so on.”
― Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
― Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“The car is “a system of human dissociation.”5 Behind the wheel of their private mobile spaces, drivers are far less likely to mix and mingle than pedestrians. By isolating drivers from fellow human beings, driving can engender hostility and mistrust. Pedestrians, cyclists and public transit riders are forced into a greater awareness of their environment and as a result are more likely to concern themselves with its wellbeing. Like”
― Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
― Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay
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