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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought. ↗

— Jacques Ibert

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat. ↗

— Bill Hybels

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Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. ↗

— Masaru Ibuka

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So there was something of a learning curve with doing your own thing and people seeing you outside of the band. I mean, people have never really heard my voice before - or heard a whole record of mine before. So it was a completely new experience. ↗

— James Iha

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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. ↗

— William James

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He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

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