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• Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Men, Important, Exploration

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1959). “Up from Liberalism”

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• A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

  Joseph Conrad

  Artist, May, Novelists

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.

  John Maeda

  Innovation, Way, Kind

  " Noises off: Forest Fringe is saved - for the moment - and cannibals aren't allowed to be gay" by Chris Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2010.

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• History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of it of course is about that. It's about everything. It's about life history. It's human. And we have to see it that way. We have to teach it that way. We have to read it that way. It's about art, music, literature, money, science, love - the human experience.

  David McCullough

  Art, Military, Issues

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• The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

  Vannevar Bush

  Mean, Squares, Important

  "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

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• I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Letting Go, Essence, Special

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.162, Penguin

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• I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what we see and what we cannot.

  Kim Hunter

  Believe, Meditation, Capture

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• He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Knowledge, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Michael McCurdy, Terry Tempest Williams (2010). “Walden”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

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• It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Lgbt, Humans

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer would always be in arrears, and were doomed forever to arrive at imperfect conclusion; but the power to perceive a law is equally rare in all ages of the world, and depends but little on the number of facts observed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Law, Numbers

  Henry David Thoreau, Eva Mae Burkett, Joyce S. Steward (1989). “Thoreau on writing”, Univ Pub Assoc

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• Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.

  Joseph Story

  Wisdom, Experience, Materials

  "Life and Letters of Joseph Story: Edited by his son William W. Story".

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• I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Interesting, Culture

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• Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

  Frederick Buechner

  Men, Way, Mystery

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.

  Dan Simmons

  Time, Memories, Weekend

  "Hyperion". Book by Dan Simmons, 1989.

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• When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

  Richard Holloway

  Forgiveness, Humans, Happens

  Richard Holloway (2002). “On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable?”, p.12, Canongate Books

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• Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great enhancer. It might last a minute, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a great space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believed that I grew, and further defined my capacities – not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience.

  Lance Armstrong

  Life, Thinking, Space

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• Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.314, e-artnow

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• What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.

  John Gardner

  Art, Stories, Way

  John Gardner, Allan Richard Chavkin (1990). “Conversations with John Gardner”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished

  Djuna Barnes

  Giving, Silence, Littles

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• We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Spiritual, Way, Humans

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• My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific test one can postulate that would definitively prove its existence in another entity. We assume that other biological human persons, at least those who are at least acting conscious, are indeed conscious. But this too is an assumption, and this shared human consensus breaks down when we go beyond human experience (e.g., the debate on animal consciousness, and by extension animal rights).

  Ray Kurzweil

  Animal, Reality, Rights

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• I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Song, Kids, Simple

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• You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience - what we all know about ourselves.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Reality, Doe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The human experience of weakness is God's blueprint for calling attention to the supremacy of his Son. When miserably failing people continue to belong to, believe in, and worship Jesus, God is happy.

  Michael Spencer

  Jesus, Believe, Son

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• I think we're dealing with a realm of human experience that doesn't get all that much attention on television.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Thinking, Television, Attention

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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