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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

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There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

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Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. ↗

— Roland Allen

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They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

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When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. ↗

— Tadao Ando

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You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. ↗

— Fiona Apple

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