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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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. – George Santayana

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That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. – George Santayana

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You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and theyll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle. – Robert Rodriguez

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I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise thats what myths are for. Its for human beings to process their experience in extremis. – Michael Sheen

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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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Experience is a great teacher. – John Legend

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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. – Ludwig van Beethoven

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Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose Ive got people up here who Im really tight with, weve made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and Ive got people in my corner I can trust. – Jonathan Brown

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To the timid soul, nothing is possible. – John Bach

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Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students. – Christopher Dodd

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