#peri

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#dead #experience #ghosts #life #night

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#audible #background #codes #communications #environment

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#always #best #elected #election #facility

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ability #almost #also #apparent #beings

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#closed #death #experience #fear #never

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. ↗

— Aeschylus

#afflicted #easy #give #prosperity

We shall perish by guile just as we slew. ↗

— Aeschylus

#perish #shall #slew

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. ↗