Quote by Jane Smiley
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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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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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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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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Nature
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So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today. – Mika Waltari

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Future

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And its what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen. – Ice T

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Future

So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated well just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. Weve also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline. – Robert Lanza

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Future

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. – James Wolcott

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Future

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If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often thats forgotten. – Stephen Hunter

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One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries. – Hillary Clinton

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Government

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming. – Brian Eno

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What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? – Basil

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