"Pliable human nature is relentlessly pressed upon by its physical environment."

-- Jane Addams

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“Consequentialist theories pretend that we can set some great big ends (the general happiness, human flourishing), provide ourselves with definite enough conceptions of them to make them the objects of instrumental reasoning, and then obtain enough reliable information about what actions will best promote them that we could regulate our conduct by these considerations alone.”
“I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.”
“Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.”
“Be honest, be brutally honest, and if you want something go out there and get it.”

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“I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.”
“Never trust anyone under one hundred!”
“People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.”
“I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.”

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