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" Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. "

George Santayana

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" None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience. "

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" You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. "

Ernest Hemingway

" Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. "

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

" I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school. "

" Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. "

Thomas Jefferson

" You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. "

" I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. "

Joseph Campbell

" If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive. "

" I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first. "

" China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good friends. By the same token, the Chinese people, new to the republican politics, must be educated properly. The revolutionary government should be the people's tutor to impart advanced awareness and experience. "

" I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth. "

" It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. "

" With the recent addition of a full soundtrack and the players map, millions of Poptropicans around the globe are now fully immersed in a multimedia gaming experience when they embark on our high quality adventures. "

" Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience. "

" Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil. "

Mother Angelica

" An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. "

George Santayana

" Initially, I tried to become an aid worker and someone who could help people, but I was unsuccessful in convincing anyone that I could be of any use. So I went and became a war correspondent without any experience in war or in being a correspondent. So that was daring. "

" See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things. "

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" Moral Injury is differentiated from PTSD in that it directly relates to guilt and shame veterans experience as a result of committing actions that go against their moral codes. Therapists who study and treat moral injury have found that no amount of medication can relieve the pain of trying to live with these moral burdens. "

" Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values. "

Sandra Day O'Connor

" For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" Every outing is a learning experience. "

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" Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end. "

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" It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve. "

" A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. "

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" Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. "

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