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    Quote Originally Posted by mimitabby View Post
    ...With his much lower salary, the Chinese acquires his durable bicycle in a fraction of the working hours an American devotes to the purchase of his obsolescent car...
    With China's most favored nation trade status and the proliferation of manufacturing camps the Chinese are now more able to afford cars. China is becoming fueled by coal fired power plants and clogged with cars and has become in many places an ecological nightmare
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    He wrote "Deschooling Society", one of my favorite radical ed books.
    "My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks

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    He also said that all the books you need to start a school library you can fit in the "baggage" of a VW Beetle. Well something like that - the punch-line was a VW Beetle.

    All you need is love...la-dee-da-dee-da...all you need is love!

 

 

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