A Quote by Jane Jacobs

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

Jane Jacobs

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Achieved Dishonest Disorder Even Exist Ignoring Mask Order Outright Quality Real Served Struggling Suppressing Than Ugliness

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Jane Jacobs
American - Sociologist
May 1, 1916 - April 25, 2006

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Luis Gutierrez

At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner.

Louis Armstrong

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Frederick Lenz

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Robert Redford

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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William Faulkner

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Wallace Stevens

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Gary Hirshberg

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Terry Rossio

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Alexis De Veaux

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

James M. Barrie

Practice quality, and you get better at quality. But quality takes time, so by working solely on quality, you end up losing something else that's important - speed.

Jason Fried

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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