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" What is easy is seldom excellent. "

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" Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment. "

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" You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth. "

" You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience. "

" The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. "

" Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. "

" Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. "

" In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails. "

" There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain. "

" It is not about gender, it is about experience, leadership, and vision. "

Angela Ahrendts

" Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow. "

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" I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition. "

" If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream. "

" As a country with experience of coping with earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters, Japan believes in emphasizing the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction. We therefore prioritize investment in disaster prevention and post-disaster improvements under a policy of Build Back Better (BBB). "

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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. "

" Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old. "

" Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. "

" Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. "

" Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. "

" Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly. "

Anna Deavere Smith

" You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape. "

" Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. "

" Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination. "

" The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. "

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

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Margaret Fuller

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