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Robert Moses

(1888–1981) Architect

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Robert Moses was an architect, best known for The civil service of Great Britain.

Quick Facts About Robert Moses

Born: December 18, 1888
Died: July 29, 1981
Profession: Architect
Notable works: The civil service of Great Britain

About Robert Moses

Robert Moses was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid-20th century. Moses is regarded as one of the most powerful and influential people in the history of New York City and New York state. Moses' construction projects transformed the New York area and revolutionized the way urban areas across the United States were designed and built. His philosophy of urban development influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners across the United States.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Robert Moses

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

Clean slate

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Critics build nothing.

Critics

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I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make…

Breaking eggs

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

Administration

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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…

Abandoned

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

Believer

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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…

Areas

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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.…

Architecture

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Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

Courses

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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…

Believe

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Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake

Change

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

Infant

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

Criticize

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

Doe

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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…

Canberra

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