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Quote by George Santayana
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a th

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. – George Santayana

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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana

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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. – George Santayana

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Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didnt want to do anything that could reflect it. – Walter Salles

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Experience

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. – Jean Houston

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Experience

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. – John Stuart Mill

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Experience

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values. – Sandra Day OConnor

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Experience

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Americans dont pay much attention to environmental issues, because they arent sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesnt get anybodys pulse racing. – Jeff Goodell

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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. – Felix Mendelssohn

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Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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The belief that the good in American society will finally win out… I dont believe any more. – Elia Kazan

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Society