"Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary."

-- Rem Koolhaas

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“The world we want to transform has already been worked on by history and is largely hollow. We must nevertheless be inventive enough to change it and build a new world. Take care and do not forget ideas are also weapons.”

Source : Marcos (subcomandante.) (2004). “Ya Basta!: Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising”, p.502, AK Press
“We have proven a new pattern of abundance. We pray that we may also help to make a pattern for peace.”
“The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of the total state being compounded of a number of separate changes each of which is solely due to a separate portion of the preceding state.”
“Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And, still it makes no difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that if it ever did relent...it would not be because it cared.”
“People say, 'Oh, God, how devastating to go through a divorce.' Did I wish for this to happen to my family? No. But everyone is healthy; we're moving on with our lives.”
“There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.”

Source : Kathy Acker (1996). “Pussy, King of the Pirates”, Acker, Kathy
“Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing.”
“I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.”

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