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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

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

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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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Jane Smiley
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Vets do what doctors used to – diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death. – Jane Smiley

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Death
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Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. Its the nature of the process. – Martin Scorsese

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Nature

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. – William Henry Harrison

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Nature

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. – Thomas Hobbes

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Nature

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a ladys head-dress. – Joseph Addison

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Nature

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