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"When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults."
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"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."
"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."
"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."
"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas."
"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
"And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are."
"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."
"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."
"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."
"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"
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"Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism."
"The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain."
"When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults."
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