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You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

Robert Moses

I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

Robert Moses

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.

Robert Moses

Robert Moses

Robert Moses

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Born: December 18, 1888

Died: July 29, 1981 (aged 92)

Bio: Robert Moses was a city planner who worked mainly in the New York metropolitan area.

Known for:

Failure to Appear
La Guardia: A Salute and a Memoir (1957)
Your Name Is Stella
The Civil Service of Great Britain (1914)

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