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The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward. ↗

— John Knowles

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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. ↗

— Karl Shapiro

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It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— William Labov

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There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time. ↗

— Walter Lang

#concept #creation #days #each #long

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Sound comes out of a life experience. ↗

— Bill Laswell

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. ↗

— Vernon Law

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But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies. ↗

— Erika Slezak

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But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. ↗

— Norman Lear

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