Quote by Jane Smiley
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark up

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldnt be surprised by the effects of deregulation. – Jane Smiley

Other quotes by Jane Smiley

In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. – Jane Smiley

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Religion
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In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known. – Jane Smiley

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Marriage
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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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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. – Blaise Pascal

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Nature

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. – Claude Monet

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Nature

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and natures phenomena before it can again become great. – Edward Hopper

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Nature

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. – Bhumibol Adulyadej

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Nature

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They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. – Jerome K. Jerome

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I dont know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. Its really sad. – Sanjay Dutt

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sad

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. – Jane Addams

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Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something. – Frank Crane

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