The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so. (Jane Jacobs)

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

Jane Jacobs

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