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“In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.”
 
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Jane Smiley
 
Name:   Jane Smiley
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Sep 26, 1949
 
Profession:   Writer
 
 
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A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
 
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