Robert Moses quotes:
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You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.
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Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.
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[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.
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If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.
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l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.
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Majorities, of course, start with minorities.
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I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.
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Critics build nothing.
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He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
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Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.
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I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
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If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?
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Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.
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Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.
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When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax,