Quote by Jane Smiley
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do. – Jane Smiley

Other quotes by Jane Smiley

The thing about Republicans is that they dont care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others. – Jane Smiley

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Fear
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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. – Jane Smiley

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Experience
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I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures. – Jane Smiley

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Future
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Other Quotes from
Nature
category

Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. – Henry Adams

Category:
Nature

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job. – Greg Peterson, 1997, www.urbanfarm.org

Category:
Nature

The world is a sunny success. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Nature

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so lets not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. – Ronald Reagan

Category:
Pollution

We have a queen-size bed, and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner. – Rachael Ray

Category:
Dogs

Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas. – Orville Wright

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Flight, Flying

My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
Holds up each summer day and shakes
It out suspiciously, lest swarms
Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there…. – Philip Larkin

Category:
Thunderstorms