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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do. – Jane Smiley

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When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely. – Jane Smiley

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Experience
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The thing about Republicans is that they dont care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others. – Jane Smiley

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Fear
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome mans insecurity before himself and before nature. – Albert Einstein

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Nature

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. – Franz Kafka

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Nature

It is better to do ones own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. – Lao Tzu

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Nature

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. – Albert Einstein

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Nature

Random Quotes

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game. – Eric Alterman

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Learning

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealands had a leadership role in a lot of things. – Helen Clark

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Leadership

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. – Louis Pasteur

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Observation

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that Im going to miss mine by just a few days. – Garrison Keillor

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sad