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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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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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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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Nature
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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. – Alfred Adler

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Future

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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Future

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true. – Gertrude Stein

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Future

Evolution never looks to the future. – Richard Dawkins

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Future

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Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born. – Antonio Banderas

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We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. – Adam Clayton Powell, Keep the Faith, Baby!, 1967

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God helps those who help themselves. – Benjamin Franklin

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I consider that a mans brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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