"If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness."

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"When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit.And nearly choked to death.It was like fire in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me."Wh...what is this?" I asked, coughing.Viktoria grinned. "Vodka."I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before.""Not Russian vodka."Apparently not."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Experience, Strength, Culture, Surprise

"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

Richard Thompson, British Musician

Experience, Song, Writer, Writing

"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

Experience, Comedy, Romantic

"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Experience, Past

"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

John Updike, American Novelist

Experience, Ecstasy, Existence

"At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war."

Allen Dulles, American Public Servant

Experience, War

"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

Experience, Name, Words, Novelist

"What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you."

Donald L. Hicks, American Author

Experience, Control, Perception, Choice

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."

Charles Simic, American Poet

Experience, Poetry, Silence, Words

"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Experience, Discovery, Wine, Joy

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"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."

"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."

"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

"At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war."

"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."

"What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you."

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."

"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."

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"There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people."

"When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it."

"Ignorance is a menace to peace."

"Many obstacles to the expansion of good will have presented themselves."

"One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it."

"Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting."

"If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England."

"The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing."

"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."

"In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor."