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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they sho

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. – W. H. Auden

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The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching We are all one. – Neale Donald Walsch

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I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad – experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But theres no question women are paid less. Women dont ask. – Dee Dee Myers

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No mans knowledge here can go beyond his experience. – John Locke

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But in the back of my mind Ive always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if its done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it. – Christopher Nolan

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I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies. – Dane Cook

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I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know hes guilty do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man? – Jim Garrison

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The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. – Orville Wright

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Real popular culture is folk art – coalminers songs and so forth. – Noam Chomsky

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