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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

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If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. – Jane Smiley

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Wisdom
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Jane Smiley
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud – 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong? – Jane Smiley

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Home
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Jane Smiley
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I was an only child. Ive known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents. – Jane Smiley

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Experience
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. – Steven Pinker

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Nature

I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mamas boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another. – Ayelet Waldman

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Nature

Its human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. Thats just so normal. – Amy Grant

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Nature

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author. – Marquis de Sade

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Nature

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Im thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldnt still be here if it werent for them. – Billy Graham

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thankful

I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note. – Jim Evans

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positive

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. – Sir Arthur Eddington

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Mankind, Man

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals. – Fred Upton

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Health