“As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.”
— Edward Witten
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“You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same.”
— Michael Haneke
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“No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.”
— Michael Bloomberg
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“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
— George Santayana
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“Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm – walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.”
— Billy Joel
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“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”
— Denis Waitley
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“If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely at odds with our modern visual experience, because everything today is based on montage.”
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
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“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
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“From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.”
— Angela Merkel
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“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
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“Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.”
— Laura Hillenbrand
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