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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.

— Robert Moses

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If the end doesn't justify the means, what does?

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

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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