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There is no new world that you make without the old world.
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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Sociologist
Urban Planner
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Scranton
Pennsylvania
Jane Butzner
Jane Butzner Jacobs
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I still have a lot of family in America. I still have a lot of friends there. There is a lot that I admire there very much. When I find America getting too much criticized outside America, I want to tell them how many things are good about it.
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