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I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an

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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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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I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures. – Jane Smiley

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Beauty is our weapon against nature by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature. – Camille Paglia

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One of the things that people dont realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well. – Ed Rendell

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Handsome means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered – and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesnt hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business. – Richard Chamberlain

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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness. – Aristotle

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