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I believe there is room in the market for a daily driver that embodies all the attributes of the best track racing car and the comfort of a luxurious sports car. Henrik Fisker
Best Daily Sports Car Believe Luxurious Market Embodies Driver Track Comfort Attributes Room Racing
My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister. Henrik Pontoppidan
Family Old Father Minister Clergymen Himself Belonged
One of the middle ones in the flock, I was born on July 24, 1857, in the small Jutland town of Fredericia. In 1863, my father was transferred to Randers, another Jutland town, where a year later, at the age of six, I experienced the invasion of the allied Prussian and Austrian armies. Henrik Pontoppidan
Age Father Year Later Born Invasion Small Allied Town Armies Another Year Later July Six Middle Where Experienced Transferred Flock
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Jacob Riis
Nothing Hundred Hundred Times Seems Perhaps Look Without Rock Go Hammering His Times Crack Much Help Showing Away
I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. Jacob Riis
First Before Gone Hundred Hundred Times Would Split Had Knew Perhaps Look Without Rock Hammering Times Crack Did Blow Much Showing Away Two
The road to energy efficiency is, in theory, a sustainability sweepstake. More efficiency means that less fuel is required to generate a given amount of energy, which in turn means lower costs for the provider and cheaper prices for the customers. Jens Martin Skibsted
Energy Given More Costs Prices Generate Cheaper Road Provider Efficiency Sustainability Which Energy Efficiency Fuel Customers Turn Lower Required Means Less Theory Amount
Time hygiene is about finding more time for ourselves: to think, to do what we like. Jens Martin Skibsted
Time Think Ourselves Finding About More Hygiene Like
Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth. Jens Martin Skibsted
Long Isolation Gone Design Long Gone Powerful Tinkering Sketching Growth
Curbing pollution and global warming takes a global cooperative mindset. Development aid needs to be rethought in this context. Jens Martin Skibsted
Needs Aid Mindset Takes Development Global Global Warming Context Pollution Warming Cooperative
Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which tries to work out the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective altruists - conform to old-school utilitarian principles - consider all causes and actions, and then act in the way that they believe brings about the greatest positive impact. Jens Martin Skibsted
Positive Work World Believe Positive Impact Consider Philosophy Way Ways Out Tries Impact About Most Principles Altruism Greatest Causes Effective Improve Movement Which Conform Social Work Out Then Act Actions Utilitarian Brings
The challenge of pollution and global warming is no longer the science, or the rate of innovation, but the rate of implementation: We have the clean solutions; now let's bundle them and install them. Jens Martin Skibsted
Science Innovation Challenge Solutions Rate Clean Install Implementation Longer Global Global Warming Bundle Pollution Them Warming Now
Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity. Jens Martin Skibsted
Health Creativity Ride Our Boost Stroll Overall Contemplation Wellbeing Going Leisure Bike Activities
Design is a powerful factor in communication between disciplines and stakeholders and can transform knowledge into creative, human-oriented solutions that can promote companies' and countries' competitive ability and foster innovation and growth. Jens Martin Skibsted
Knowledge Creative Communication Innovation Design Promote Solutions Ability Factor Powerful Between Countries Disciplines Transform Stakeholders Companies Foster Growth Competitive
The debate on climate change has been tainted by its excessive concern with individual and national interests, short-termism, and lack of solidarity in face of global threats. Jens Martin Skibsted
Change Debate Face National Solidarity Has-Been Threats Individual Tainted Excessive Global Concern Climate Climate Change Been National Interests Lack Interests
Even if we accepted the health implications of pollution and the impact on global warming, from a simple space management perspective, mobility will eventually collapse in cities that give priority to the car. Jens Martin Skibsted
Health Management Simple Space Perspective Car Will Collapse Cities Impact Give Implications Global Global Warming Accepted Priority Mobility Pollution Warming Even Eventually
If intelligent robots are our competitors and, to some extent, cerebrally alike - enough for us to discuss their ethical standing - why would they be above the law? Should they not contribute to our societies, too? And why would they be exempt from taxes? Jens Martin Skibsted
Law Too Enough Our Alike Would Some Above Exempt Robots Intelligent Discuss Contribute Taxes Ethical Us Should Standing Why Societies Extent Competitors
I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation. Jens Martin Skibsted
Democracy Rest Believe Difficult Enough Lay Identity Without Scientific Race Theories Need
Our houses, shops, and factories waste gigantic amounts of energy, often in the form of excess heat. How do we slash this waste? The answer is fairly simple: with a smart thermal water grid. Jens Martin Skibsted
Water Simple Smart Energy Our Gigantic Factories Excess Fairly Houses Answer How Heat Shops Often Form Grid Thermal Waste Amount Slash
Who needs Russian gas if we could get all the heat we need from our own surplus? Who needs Middle Eastern oil, when we can integrate limitless renewable sources in our smart grids? Jens Martin Skibsted
Needs Smart Own Our Eastern Russian Could Renewable Limitless Surplus Integrate Sources Get Heat Middle Oil Middle Eastern Who Gas Need
The sun doesn't always shine; the wind doesn't always blow. This is why, if we want to rely on renewables, we need intelligent systems that integrate and coordinate different sources of energy at scale so that when one is scarce or unavailable, the others can automatically compensate. Jens Martin Skibsted
Wind Shine Energy Others Sun Scale Systems Scarce Rely Renewables Always Integrate Sources Intelligent Blow Different Want Automatically Coordinate Why Compensate Need
Airships could be part of the answer to Africa's infrastructure woes - if the financial challenges are overcome. Jens Martin Skibsted
Challenges Financial Overcome Could Part Answer Woes Africa Infrastructure
Major global institutions need to harvest clean tech knowledge wherever it can be found and integrate it into their major export systems. Jens Martin Skibsted
Knowledge Harvest Systems Clean Major Global Institutions Integrate Wherever Export Tech Found Need
Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing cities. Jens Martin Skibsted
Finance Water Too Much Energy Too Cities Solutions General Developing Most Traffic Urban Infrastructure Ask Much
Regardless of our political stance, we cannot afford to perpetuate the Western car-centric model. Jens Martin Skibsted
Political Our We Cannot Perpetuate Western Model Afford Regardless Cannot Stance
Consumers do not want a perceived cheap car; they want a car to flaunt. A car is as much about status and identity as it is about transport. Jens Martin Skibsted
Car Status About Perceived Consumers Cheap Identity Want Much Transport
We inadvertently keep oppressing Africans when we label them by an approximated color - and even when we confuse a specific socio-cultural group such as the Afro-Americans with Africans. Jens Martin Skibsted
Confuse Group Color Label African Inadvertently Them Even Keep Specific
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