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One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.
Jane Jacobs
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Jane Jacobs
Age: 89 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 4
Died: 2006
Died: April 25
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Economist
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Urban Planner
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Scranton
Pennsylvania
Jane Butzner
Jane Butzner Jacobs
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Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.
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The notion that you could discard the old world and now make a new one. This is what was so bad about Modernism.
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Unfortunately [René] Lévesque had so little self confidence in Quebec and in the people themselves, that he fell for that and, yes, he'd say, you know, it might be ruinous for us economically.
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Privately run jails are a mark of American reinvented government that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in Canada.
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