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I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

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Jane Jacobs
Age: 89 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 4
Died: 2006
Died: April 25
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Economist
Journalist
Sociologist
Urban Planner
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Scranton
Pennsylvania
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