Experience Quotes
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I've always been interested in rootedness - mainly, I suppose, because I had very little experience of it.
John Lanchester
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I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?
Elizabeth Prentiss
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In everyday life, he claims, we all experience three states of consciousness: the awake state, in which we experience awareness and the objects of our consciousness originate in the physical reality around us; the dream state, in which we experience awareness, but the objects of our consciousness have some internal origin; and the deepsleep state, in which there is no awareness. According to Russell, the state achieved in meditation is a fourth distinct state, in which there is awareness, indeed profound awareness, but awareness of nothing but consciousness itself. In this state, awareness transcends consciousness of objects and is pure self-awareness.
Bernard Haisch
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I believe I can draw on my experience in Bavaria to create a dynamic economy for the whole of Germany.
Edmund Stoiber
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We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
Terence McKenna
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It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.
Paul Klee
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Don't consider sarcasm the 'be-all' and 'end-all' of verbal intercourse. Far too many people place way too much importance on the sarcasm instead of the talking, in and of itself, as a precious shared experience between people.
Adam Rifkin
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I had an unusual college experience because I traveled the world while going to school at the same time. Now, to look back, I was very lucky.
Su-chin Pak
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'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.
Lee Daniels
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
Will Durant
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
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We understand 'Roots,' and that experience was mind-boggling, and it changed the way society viewed race relations. It was incredibly important. With 'Roots,' I was just as proud as anybody else that people of color were getting their stories told.
Esai Morales
