Quote by Jane Smiley
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece

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

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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud – 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong? – 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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I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of lifes mystery and unpredictability, of lifes generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. – Jane Smiley

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Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. – Al Gore

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In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash. – Douglas MacArthur

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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. – Thomas Hobbes

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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. – Albert Camus

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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. – George Meredith

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