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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

by Sarah Goodyear

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

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Until that happened, there was no future: there was only a continued slide into still more terrifying versions of the present.

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“I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

tags: anna-funder, anxiety, calm, freedom, gdr, germany, purpose, rhymn, trains

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“Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher’s stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

tags: feminism

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“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

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“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: causes, friendship

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“It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Short Residence in Sweden / Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman'

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