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Experience Quotes
"Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself."
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"Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too."
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"Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun."
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"The new Pirates! builds on that legacy delivering an even more powerful and fun experience to players... and is still unmatched in offering a blend of genres in one great game."
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"The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."
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"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink."
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"I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft."
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"As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore."
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"My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience."
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"Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing."
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"This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions."
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"So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance."
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"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."
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"At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience."
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"A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions."
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"My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience."
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"The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions."
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"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent."
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"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."
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"And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree."
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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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"So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear."
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"My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job."
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"As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension."
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"The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly."
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"I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down."
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"Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it."
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"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it."
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"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
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"The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience."
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"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."
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"Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama."
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"We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps."
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"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."
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"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."
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"I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience."
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"To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour."
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"The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get."
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"I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human."
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"It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't dirty and it wasn't horrible and wasn't shattering. It was a wonderful, liberating experience."
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"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
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"If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper."
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"For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian."
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"The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
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"I never go back and listen to the recorded document. The thrill comes when the balance can be attained. Everyone in the room can have a shared, communal rock experience."
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"Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket."
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"As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive."
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"In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience."
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"I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience."
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