Quote by Herbert Read
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Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience – by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. – Herbert Read

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The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. – Herbert Read

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The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. – Herbert Read

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The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. – Herbert Read

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My experience is thats rare – that you have a script that is… what they call film-ready. – Laura Linney

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In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future! – Dan Quayle

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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. – Walter Pater

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I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. – Peter Davison

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