#peri

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen. ↗

— Roger Ebert

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I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. ↗

— David Eddings

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I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life. ↗

— David Eddings

#army #back #business #experiences #fallen

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#always #american #be different #declaration #different

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#come #could #experience #fits #god

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#experimental #fascinating #i #other #people

In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#blacks #clear #compared #evidence #fact

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. ↗

— George Eliot

#experience #had #his #into #maxims

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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