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“Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
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“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but it's echo lasts a great deal longer”
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“It requires confronting the fundamental underlying processes (and their associated power structures, social relations, institutional, configurations, discourses, and belief systems) that generate, environmental and social injustices. Here, I revert to a key moment in the argument advanced in social justice in the city: it is vital, when encountering a serious problem, not merely to try to solve the problem in itself, but to confront and transform the processes that give rise to the problem in the first place. Then, as now, the fundamental problem is the unrelenting capital accumulation and the extraordinary asymmetries of money and political power that are embedded in that process”
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“Los Angeles will not, of course, collapse. Rather, it will stagger on with higher body counts and greater distress, through a chain of more frequent and destructive encounters with disasters of all sorts. Southern California’s golden age forever will be superseded. It is not simply its conjugation of earthquakes, wildfires, and floods, but it’s uniquely explosive mixture of natural hazards and social contradictions.”
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