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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is hu

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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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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Jane Smiley
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In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life, but it is not a cure. Same with religion. – Jane Smiley

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Religion
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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a ladys head-dress. – Joseph Addison

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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. – George Washington Carver

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Nature is new every morning, but its cycles are ancient, independent of all our anxieties, oblivious to our plans. – Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, “Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer,” 2003 September 25th

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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. – Napoleon Hill

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You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. – James Agee

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A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. – Henrik Ibsen

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After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. – Harry Seidler

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When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. – Christopher Lasch

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