March of medicine The story of hospitals
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And they meet in groups and they talk and they walk together
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and child. It's it I'm out. We take care of these to say cut off set odds.
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In out of sensuality we'll see. And
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you'll fucked out of which has until. Now.
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Which doesn't that allow people to be in the middle of this debate and that a fault of the people are
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squeezed.
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We had a very much a concern in a physics
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about the atoms and the molecules
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and the data distances when the distances change.
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We have no problems right. Sure do not begin being unsound
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about ourselves our own homes and
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molecules we change the structure of the city. We
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stop being able to see we don't see the outside
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of the state because we have the big buses in between
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and the high speed to cart us wedded to was of
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great to value for anyone to have their window on the street. Now it is of
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great value not to have a window on the street who can walk. We've
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got speed outside and past that to walk in that heat even
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if it has is bad.
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Which is crossed continuously by the statue itself looks
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like it but AFAIK by the east man because you can see the head of the
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statue above the tops of the cuts in this way
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I think we are forced to say that we have of
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the impact of technological progress on
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the S.A.T. we have them in the big scale
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we have lost in the smallest cave as long as we can know to
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walk in the streets as long as our children cannot
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study in this that it will. Don't know how many of the
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phobias of modern man due to the fact that
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for the first time in his 30 he is not in his
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cities. We are entitled to say that the conclusion of
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diagnoses is that the battle is lost. At
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that moment we have to ask ourselves whether the
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VC is necessary whether this is a boy
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whether we should sit back with cans and
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see the change which leads to the disaster or the
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S.A.T. and of such considerations
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made me back to the small piece of clay on
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which I head to my will and that I do it again. And there's
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anybody on this call bell. This also could be had in two
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ways. It all depends where you put the full stop prospects
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full stop. No death this was the old game of the
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article. It allowed you to make any
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conclusion about what it said. Let us
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now see whether there is such a chance. So
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divided by love. Man Not death of the city.
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Let this go back to the year 2000. 67. Let this go back to the
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belfry and try to come to it by now. I go
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back to my hotel and I say that my destination is what
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I am told that the plastic bottle but you know which I'm going to put out of it is going to
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be in 10 minutes in my own Wheaties but I'll be in I had
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it I hang them I caught I see it in the album chav. I
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bought on the street which say made it to be Saturday at 1:00.
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Getting by I am not interested in the studies of the steel out of
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I don't want to be this. And from then on. I don't
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feel anything because he's taken
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my Candy Crowley it is going into an underground system
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it is transferred to the jet. It is transferred
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to the docket it is through oh no that was the plan to take to
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Chicago would take again into that again after water and
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fed to the building of the students union. I then
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opened my dog and stepped out.
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This looks so but I wish but that
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is the nature of our solution technologically.
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By now we are convinced that highways
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there will not be lead to any solution and tell you some
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studies by the amp got a partition published in
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65 and by the absence of Technological Institute came to
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the same conclusion that in the seventies it will be
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cheaper to construct than the adults and the big cities
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and on the highways there is Arny's that they landed by us in the days and
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the value from the buildings in the US and modern technology.
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We could easily as the cost of panel construction if in the 70s it will be
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cheap out of pocket panels instead of highways in the big cities
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in the 80s and the 90s and beyond it will be much cheaper to
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construct that ground and that the water man is going to lay out in
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a very simple model for which nature has them.
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Thousands millions billions of years ago that the Napa waters
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are never on the surface the networks always
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underground in your own body your which is full of
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networks.
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The speeds of the blood clot example are equal to
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one of the people he had a lot of fingers in the copyeditors then this
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bit just stopped 10 times smaller. Twenty fifty. It kind of
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it. Five foot seven a condom a tiny small
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is the speed of sound a lot of that but because of the speed that
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the pedal we go we have to invent a stat
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that man is going to do any shaping of the side effects of the app as a
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natural phenomenon and that we would have to have a period to what nature has
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done because this is the only way to have it be propped up on a spot a patient
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it's on that is an ability to have jobs. We've not thought of sidelining got the hand that
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it might stand out and took it outside of cities up tonight miles an hour.
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In this way we have for you the status of the AB thought of mine.
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And thought it meant shot out of phenomena and will have to be
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possible to Speed's any proper analysis shows that the
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VC is what we can do NOT founded technologically
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but also economically. The great diffidence between my two
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types to order by now. The good.
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And the better. Lice on whether we believe
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the next but I play shown over in Saudi
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expel a polish from the tents and setting goals
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of the greatest weaknesses of planning for the future is that the
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people of the plains. They say
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way way out in point a we are in point B
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and put up at a stud to obey the laws of this evolution on the shoals that
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will go to point C this is all a right where you MUST BE
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A to B.
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We must be our way out of wedded to needs but even this is not the white man
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needs. We must have the have the need to set a goal of B
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and C will change the present. Think what would
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have happened if I said this some believe in the population of parents.
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We still would have been we had it with all the Lambs it be to bet that all your lamps
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were all going to us is not achieved by those who believe the next time a
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politician often ends by those who spotted the extrapolation often
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ends on changing them when they don't meet with man's
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interest and this is what we have to understand this is
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what we have to achieve setting goals for a man's interest.
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Man is in Paradise that who gave the
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copy and say. If you want to build the
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VCP of man and not the machines we have to understand
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these and we have to start up by setting the proper goals
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what can be the proper goals. I was startled to find that
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happiness and safety. But if we had remained to these general
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tabs we may confuse others and ourselves we may
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even cheat society and humanity we have
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if we want to be practical to express to these vague the
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atoms of happiness and safety in tatters.
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Let us tell you one method our most
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important commodity is time. We have 24 hours a day
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of which we spend eight hours sleeping eight hours in the
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Water King to our sleeping Washington set up and we are
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left with six hours the six to atoms which make the grade defendants between
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man and the mode during which we enjoy ourselves
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we have the lights we think we create and then
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we implemented these ideas which we got during the office
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hours. Now
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why do we do today in our city.
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There is some study in the Detroit area has put over that
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we spend the average man spends out of commuting in the
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modding community to give the optimum two hours of commuting that a day
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out of the six hours one thetan allowed a life
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buying is with us.
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If we make a proper analysis we lend the stand that
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we are a leading man to an impasse because 335 years
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that's possible we had 10 minutes to out of commuting. This is not that is a
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number we can start of we think it budget
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which can be translated into a city and then we can qualify
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the time restraint because we need full
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satisfaction. Have we better caps on so the question
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whether it is better to walk for 10 minutes to walk to
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drive 20 minutes by a fall or two hours by all of
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us. What makes model sends in the
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atoms of human values. We need to the cause of that a
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big distance. Do we need them about a small distances can we not
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establishing some systematic chatter going
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to help people said elect of the cars they want inside there in the
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area they believe this is and they say city
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and we have to do it in order to achieve it. We have to
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understand that they both of the other sciences. Or you must set a new
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one.
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The science of man as it was named by his
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being giddy and then being called to account for optics.
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The science of force of man which will do him as a whole and
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will help him to set goals and then forum his habitat are
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calling.
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It was very fashionable when I was a student to speak up
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cities and to buddies and them as buildings
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of the goal that the five years ago almost all books about CDs read full of
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pictures of buildings.
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Then they bought in the Olds was lost and many people
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thought about the problem of CDs was a problem off the topic and the eat all of the
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highways but of late that it became apparent
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that this was not the solution. And people stop that talking much more
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about the CD as a social problem. And lately and especially in the
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United States is an actual problem.
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But all of these of you was out of it what you had on because B C
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or C is just a 5 and that means
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have presented them and I want to show them yet again
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the nature of man.
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Society in the shadows.
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And the networks.
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But this sight impaired a connectivity in many ways a chemist
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would call them would call the piece a molecule in my thumb at
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the shop would call it a system how we call it it does not
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matter whether we have a print of stand is that we have a building
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we want to go and meet the human settlements
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and nobody can any model. But I say it because
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for me to be done so vs mediums conduct itself
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thousands and tens of thousands and that its of yes
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we have been added to the system. We cannot now sort of
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vibe outside over the season and any alimentary
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change has an impact on the other. That afforded any efforts to
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solve social problems in the city today established by your
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CNBC today. Do real physical you have bet out of safety
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to save the city. I don't want to complicate a failure
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unless we study the system and we see
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the EMA part of the change of one on the other and we want to see Milt
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honestly because this is an imperative necessity
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to end the stand the complex situation with each we are
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dealing and to water for a
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system which forms the saw around doing The
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Hobbit that our only life.
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How can we do it we have to use your methods.
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Setting goals is not enough.
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Setting goals gives the directive. But
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it was a completely new methodology will fail completely.
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On this point I was at their loss for many years
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until I finally manage to end
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how we feel when we try to create
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something if I have a very simple case.
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I'm invited to every lodge and I'm told how these
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should go all way and after studying the situation
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I say these should go along with the
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valley. I don't say that
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because I know that of these is the right
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situation. I say that because I know that we are that
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so Russians are excluded because there are steep
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hills on both sides. The only solution beyond
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that of the evil which is possible is to go down the valley.
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I am pause it when I have been able to exclude
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that methods gradually I have stood that the vase
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pedicabs was opening was that old form.
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The selection of the best solution which we need that
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guy to at the end of support that the best solution could not be defined
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by me was defined by facts and
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my soul look at all of them as they pick up as the
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expert was to find the butt up out of solution.
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This begins to work against the idea
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of being young that we need to people we need MY G nation
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out of that.
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We need people who will have to be great ideas about our
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cities we don't need to people who have been great ideas.
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We need people who will be very careful. Water cabs and
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who will be systematically not. To
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let the best sort of out of order possible of
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solutions in such complex situations of
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media and points of view of any such system
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any analysis of full analysis in the city will
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prove that we always deal with Media Matters
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it is something we carry out now thought of the
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other seven and a half a million people has put it that
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if we want the all possible that we have to deal
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with 9 million of them.
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Which means product even if we did B.K. to one page of study
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to have everyone thought in one thousand volumes of 1000 pages.
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We understand that it is impossible that a photo we have to stop thinking
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how can we really mean a thought of the night and
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many of the 49 million solutions the only way these two are
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getting on because I haven't got that we want to you was and this week on
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food on a second axis here because I hear ya.
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And if we present we have all the product in either medium solutions and
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we stop walking away because I thought of them. We begin to eat me
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mate. Such an attempt has
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led to 500000 solutions.
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Which forced to as to proceed on a
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second darts is really 500000.
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Developing your criteria much more perfect than the
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previous one and we had a lead down to 11000
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and then from that we kind of go to a
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third boxes of 11000. I looked at my
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papers and developed a new cutie can I give you even more static to once
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we went down with her you can put it under water and this has continued
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until from studies out that and the thieves we have a lead
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to in the process. We head.
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Up. To Today in our own mind to onset of the
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basic questions of the future. Example.
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And here we come back to the book confusing the point of the unknown
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future. When we started working with all the transportation
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experts who are walking for the big corporations we found
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that we had dead range of opinions about the speeds of other ways
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in the hours and they were ranging from Condit to miles an
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hour to 600 miles an hour. So where did
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we stop this. And there we found that it was not up to the
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side it was up to the seat to set it and we
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put here at speeds that it
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miles to get to 15 up to 600 that so
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many of the South throughout a built on all of these assumptions of speeds
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and then when we started walking on our system we found
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that several sets of speeds that you would see.
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The sets of speeds with more than that
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50 miles sound good by themselves because it would
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take so much time. Man 20 out of these high speed systems
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that it would not be a waterfall to use them within the right that
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we think that it was not of that to use these beats
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man. So they were not speeds.
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We've been there yes but speeds connecting us
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in the same way where you fall you fall into that. If we continue with speeds of
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weaknesses and we came to the conclusion that these speeds which would provide solutions
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part of the year 2000 for such big got a sweater between two handed down to
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kind of 50 miles. Thinking in the same ways we see that
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with all sets of bodies on number the densities from the very high densities to the
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very low ones. And by combining the density of the speeds with the
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maximum time with the city we found that we cannot
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continue with a very low density is because then we are having an upset of us
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will never have enough buses to help the
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school children are going to be in very weak
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position to reach the schools the community is not going to be able to put
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part of this system. He needs maintenance.
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He says it would be completely related to the incomes of the people
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and therefore we came through economic and social considerations
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to conclusions about the view densities and many other factors. What the
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system provides is the following. Even if we
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are wrong in many of our assumptions and the City Fathers those who are in
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charge of the comeback to say you forgot.
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One possibility south of Detroit you
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have selected only seven locations on it then we can insert a
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factor into the system and in 22 minutes of computer
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we can show the impact of this new factor on a very other factor
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so every part can be unsettled that
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and can be judged in this way. We begin on the road
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off a systematic object of the city and
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its problems. We begin to take out the likes and
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dislikes which are valued in aesthetics
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in space. As far as man can see
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and feel but we are not the body to wed a man cannot see the
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forest much more of technology before the march
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modern economic and geographic. In this way by
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developing kept up that have ceased to matter about our cities we don't solve any problems
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but we have to solve them.
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Because the all of the experts is not to make the decisions for humanity and the
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community. These decisions have to be taken by on
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Saturday in a democracy the all of the expenses for me to
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unite the pattern at the hips and allow those
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who decide about our future to take the proper decisions in full
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knowledge of what they mean with such concede that
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we can be led to a better system for the city
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of the future. This city of the future
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has to be built to be built in the U.S. it's
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this obligation. Tonight you had it out in
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your stand in front of the media and you've got to sell because you are out
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of the generation which will have to make it wake on the
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beat in Attic organizing the problem and opening it is you've got a
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generation that is going to sort of buy these violent
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cops off they're going to the media after asking this
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question. You may come back to me and say but it is difficult.
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It is a difficult task and then the only thing that Ican
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unself through that these two quote to you the critic
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something that the critic that I have a new course as on Zachary's
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has been before the dying that each way I
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cannot think of.
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You have been listening to Constantine knows doxy office prominent architect and city planner.
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He spoke on man in the city of the future at the third session of the University of
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Illinois Centennial symposium the next programme in this series
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will feature a lecture by George Wald professor of biology at Harvard University.
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He will discuss the human enterprise a scientist's view
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man and the multitude is a feature presentation of the University of Illinois
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radio services.
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