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" Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. "
Francis Bacon
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" There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. "
John Stuart Mill
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" Skydiving is special because it's almost the closest to an out-of-body experience you can have. We live in such a stimulated, connected, busy world - to be up in the air with nothing but yourself and the landscape is incredibly peaceful. "
Georgia King
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" Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. "
Harry S Truman
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" Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. "
A. E. Housman
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" I know we're all addicted to our smartphones, and I'll say, if I forget my smartphone, I go home and get it. And so understanding how to integrate that technology into the driving experience, both the front seat and the passenger seat and the back seat, I think is very important. "
Mary Barra
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" The great end of life is not knowledge but action. "
Francis Bacon
Great
End
Action
" Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine. "
Isabel Allende
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" As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world. "
Naomi Shihab Nye
Great
Perspective
Life
" That's what's great about the horror genre is that you're getting a load of people together in the cinema at the same place and the same time, having them all experience extreme fear and come out alive at the end. It's an uplifting experience, and there's a sense of elation. "
Wes Craven
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Fear
Together
" The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect. "
Charles Kennedy
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Experience
Respect
" It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. "
Francis Bacon
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Way
Ways
" To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Understanding
Words
Experience
" It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand. "
Chris Kilham
Environment
Experience
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" In a traditional Japanese or Chinese garden, it's not only about the building or temple but about the whole setup - the structure, the landscape, the light, the plants, the water. The whole experience that makes your life there so beautiful. "
Ma Yansong
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Plants
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" A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity. "
Charles Ives
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Moment
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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. "
Ulrich Beck
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Experience
Future
" Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience. "
Nicholas Kristof
Women
Men
Experience
" Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional. "
Brian Greene
Perspective
Life
Experience
" There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. "
Francis Bacon
Strangeness
Some
Excellent
" We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment. "
Janine Shepherd
People
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Experience
" God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith. "
Mahatma Gandhi
God
Matter
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" There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope. "
Emilio Estevez
Go
World
Travel
" The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words. "
Johnny Iuzzini
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Thoughts
Respect
" Japan, not only a mega-busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old Japan' and more importantly feel these aspects of Japanese culture. "
Apolo Ohno
Nature
Travel
Old
" There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things. "
Gary Gygax
Character
Experience
Winning
" To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget. "
Larry Hogan
Never Forget
Experience
See
" Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. "
Auguste Rodin
Nothing
Time
Waste
" I feel like my convictions and my passions come from my very personal experience and the life that I've led. I feel the very naturally tendency to stand up for and use my voice for the things that I know about and the things that I feel passionate about. "
America Ferrera
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" To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. "
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Men
" What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day. "
Bonnie Blair
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