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We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call “magical reason”—pervading secular thought and experience in modern society. Science and technology are for most people a new religion, and their orthodoxies are believed with the same fervor. ↗

— David Watson

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To learn about yourself...you must not be afraid to experience life. Not just the good, but the bad times too...make lots of mistakes, make friends, and then piss lots of people off, lose a job, then gain another. Experience success, and failures, find love, then lose it again...This is what molds us to be who we are. ↗

— Lolalola

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Believers in psychic phenomena... appear to have won a decisive victory and virtually silenced opposition.... This victory is the result of careful experimentation and intelligent argumentation. Dozens of experimenters have obtained positive results in ESP experiments, and the mathematical procedures have been approved by leading statisticians.... Against all this evidence, almost the only defense remaining to the skeptical scientist is ignorance. ↗

— George R. Price

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There are certain things in life that no one can teach us. We must experience many situations for ourselves in order to better understand what it means to be human. ↗

— Donna Labermeier

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I have never been a violent man. Just a little creepy, it seems. ↗

— Tim Winton

#experience

He took her hand in his and kissed her fingers, then shook his head. “I wouldn’t have let you get away. I was angry and I acted foolishly, but I would have gotten you back. Whatever it took, I would have gotten you back. You’re my answer, Zoe. You’re my salvation. ↗

— Elliot Mabeuse

#the-doc #the-experiment #experience

Experience has taught me that it is always better to be well rested than to know what you are doing - Nanny Piggins ↗

— R.A. Spratt

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I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you know it. I want to understand the meaning of your experience, to walk in your shoes, to feel things as you feel them, to explain things as you explain them. Will you become my teacher and help me understand? ↗

— James P. Spradley

#qualitative-research #experience

Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature. ↗

— Deborah Cater

#travel #travel-writing #experience

You know how shyness is sometimes misinterpreted to be snobbishness? I experience the reverse. What people assume is my observant, meditative nature is really utter disdain. ↗

— Finbar Kelly

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