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I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is p

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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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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Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I dont know any smokers now, not even my mom. – 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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If GEs strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century. – Jack Welch

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Im convinced theres a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. – Peter Ustinov

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When all else is lost, the future still remains. – Christian Nestell Bovee

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Id like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future. – Garth Brooks

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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. – Charles Baudelaire

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. – Thomas Reid

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When a friend is in trouble, dont annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. – E. W. Howe

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One has to have the courage of ones pessimism. – Ian Mcewan

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