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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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When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely. – Jane Smiley

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Experience
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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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I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty. – Jane Smiley

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War
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Ryan Leaf is doing great now. If he progresses the way he is now, were going to have a quarterback thats going to be reckoned with in the near future. And thats not political. – Junior Seau

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Future

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. – Kofi Annan

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Future

I never have planned a whole lot of future. Its one day at a time. – Darrell Royal

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Future

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children. – Wilfrid Laurier

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Future

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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isnt really there yet. – Claudio Reyna

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Were all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning. – Mary Wesley

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Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New Year will bring new opportunities. – Michael Josephson (b.1942), whatwillmatter.com

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New Year