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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits by which we are nurtured and live.
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.
Quotes By Jane Smiley
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I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
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In the traditional urban novel there is only survival or not. The suburban...
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There can never be such a thing as a free market because it is human nature...
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Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his...
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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
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Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My...
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In December 1998 I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year...
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college I told my...
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I loved the house the way you would any new house because it is populated by...
Quotes About Wisdom
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Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual...
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Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
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This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have...
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.
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In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people for who...
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One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so...
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I think in conventional magazine wisdom you need to have a redesign every...