Robert Moses Quotes

• Alzo mi stein al constructor que puede eliminar los guetos sin eliminar a las personas, como aclamo al cocinero que puede hacer tortillas sin romper los huevos.

  Robert Moses

  Ghetto, Eggs, People

  "Robert Moses, Master Builder, is Dead at 92" by Paul Goldberger, archive.nytimes.com. July 30, 1981.

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• If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

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  Mean, Doe, Ends

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

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  Critique

  Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's State of the City Address, www.crainsdetroit.com. March 11, 2008.

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• When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

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  Meat, Way, Clean Slate

  "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.

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• Se puede dibujar lo que se quiera sobre una pizarra en blanco y dar rienda suelta a todos los caprichos en la naturaleza al trazar una Nueva Delhi, Canberra o Brasilia, pero cuando se opera en una metrópolis sobreedificada, hay que abrirse camino con un hacha de carnicero.

  Robert Moses

  Meat, Want, Way

  "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.

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• Las mayorías, por supuesto, empiezan por las minorías.

  Robert Moses

  Majority, Minorities, Courses

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• l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.

  Robert Moses

  Change, Fear, Hands

  "Aircraft Carrier: The Commission Comes To a Fork In the Ocean". Remarks by Commissioner Isaac C. Hunt, Jr., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, at the Practicing Law Institute's 30th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, New York, November 05, 1998.

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• Critics build nothing.

  Robert Moses

  Crítica

  Robert Moses (1956). “Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Service”

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• Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

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  New York, Believe, Tired

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• [It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

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  Cities, Taste, Architecture

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• He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

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  Long, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

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  Long, Essentials, Abandoned

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• Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.

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  Hands, Chaos, Divine

  Robert Moses (1970). “Public Works: A Dangerous Trade”

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• Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.

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  New York, Ciudades, Gente

  Robert Moses (1956). “Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Service”

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• If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

  Robert Moses

  Idols, Musical, Administration

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