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Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
-Jane Jacobs
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Cities Have The Capability Of Providing Something

Jane Jacobs
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
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I hear all of these liberals so concerned with people's health and so critical of tobacco cause it kills, it's deadly, and secondhand and third, and they've created a bunch of insane people out there. i'm telling you, liberalism has created literally deranged people afraid of everything. i mean it makes no sense to be afraid of secondhand smoke a hundred yards away from it. they have created this. they have created this inordinate fear of ordinary, everyday life.
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