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Jane Jacobs
Age: 89 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 4
Died: 2006
Died: April 25
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Pennsylvania
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There are still an awful lot of intelligent, clever constructive Americans and they are still doing clever constructive things.
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To seek causes of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.
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A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.
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People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really.
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The entrepreneurial investors of the time just want to repeat themselves indefinitely and don't know when to stop. You can't do that. And so finally the housing boom, or the auto boom, or whatever it is that's been carrying things along, runs out of customers.
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I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.
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