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"We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'."

"Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have."

"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."

"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."
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"History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections."

"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury."

"We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible."

"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."

"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."

"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment."
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