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Quote by William Morris
It took me years to understand that words are often as important a

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last. – William Morris

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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. – William Morris

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Protest
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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die. – William Morris

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Art
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William Morris
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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make. – William Morris

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Future
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Experience
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Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. – Muriel Rukeyser

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Experience

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise. – William Whewell

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Experience

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. – Brittany Snow

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Experience

The amount of meetings Ive been in – people would be shocked. But thats how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow. – Tiger Woods

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Experience

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