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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire

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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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market. – Jane Smiley

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I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. – Jane Smiley

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I believe theres no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences. – Miguel de Cervantes

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A womans life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. – Wallis Simpson

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God is only a great imaginative experience. – David Herbert Lawrence

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