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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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Somehow, knowing that Alzheimers is coming mocks all ones aspirations – to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for ones accomplishments and hard work – in a way that old familiar death does not. – Jane Smiley

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Death
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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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Nature
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. – John Ruskin

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Nature

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. – Bhumibol Adulyadej

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Nature

I wish that all of natures magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. – Annie Leibovitz

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Nature

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals? – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Nature

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For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. Proverbs 24:16 – Bible

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Persistence

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation… is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. – George Matthew Adams

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Fear

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. – Ellen DeGeneres

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Fear

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. – Shirley MacLaine

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Friendship