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Can someone tell me why the Nobel prize is considered the greatest recognition for achievement ? what makes it superior to other awards ? People place such trust in the judgment of those who award it that they would now perceive the recipient as better in his/her respective field than others.

I think that the more you are ill, the more fondness you develop for being ill. Not fondness in the sense of longing, maybe familiarity is a better word. When you fall ill for the twentieth time, you remember other times; how wonderful it was to miss school for a full week, the nice winter coldness that made you sick in the first place, the doctor that said your vena cava came out in the wrong place ( horrible doctor ), and the lovely feeling of lying down alone and not caring about anything in the world because you're ill.