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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#democracy #experience #fear #having #lived

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#against #been #better #competition #despite

To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#before #citizens #controversial #difficult #experiences

I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#down #experiences #fax #few #find

The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#away #clear #environment #experiences #first

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#astronaut #being #best #better #business

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#apprentice #complete #completeness #else #everything

You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out. ↗

— Seal

#because #emotional #everything #experiencing #feeling

For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere. ↗

— Jon Secada

#does #experience #experienced #good #honest

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#apt #as far as #authority #carry #constant