"Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians."

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Source : "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.

Alex Steffen

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“When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.”
“Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.”
“Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism.”
“If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation-well these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”

Source : "The Nature of the Physical World" by Arthur Eddington, (Ch. 4), 1928.
“Dâ€™Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, heâ€™ll be his usual charming self by morning.”
“Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way required by the immediate situation in which you are. Such a way of living leaves you free, not ruled tyrannically by imposed regulations which may not at all suit the particular case.”
“My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.”
“I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.”

Source : "Art Bell: Radio's Master of the Unexplained Explains Himself". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. April 20, 2009.

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