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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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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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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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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs. – Wallace Stevens

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Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our childrens future. And we are all mortal. – John F. Kennedy

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Future

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. – Marcel Pagnol

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I think that in the future, clocks wont say three oclock anymore. Theyll just get right to the point and rename three oclock Pepsi. – Doug Coupland

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When you play, play hard when you work, dont play at all. – Theodore Roosevelt

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We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free. – Epictetus

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Facts are not science – as the dictionary is not literature. – Martin H. Fischer

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Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesnt offend somebody its probably not a joke. Its probably an observation thats not funny. Its gotta offend somebody somewhere. – Jeff Ross

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