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A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it. – John le Carre

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If the experience of science teaches anything, its that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. – John Polkinghorne

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Men do weird things when they experience fear. Its like a fight-or-flight thing. – Rashida Jones

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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. – Henry James

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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. – Vincent Van Gogh

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The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. – Winston Churchill

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