#edge

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#get #i #knowledge #people #power

People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#city #done #edge #fields #five

I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it. ↗

— Lauren Graham

#i #pledge #take #then

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge. ↗

— Kelsey Grammer

#judgment #knowledge #sin #without

There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#cutting #cutting edge #edge #fuel-efficient #huge

I don't know if we're on the edge of the precipice, but we're in a very, very, very difficult situation. ↗

— Luis de Guindos

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A baby's existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you're actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that's a big deal. A very big deal. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#acknowledge #actually #baby #big #big deal

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. ↗

— David Hare

#sail #thought #wind