#peri

I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents. ↗

— Mos Def

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I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. ↗

— Mos Def

#control #different #experience #hip-hop #how

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences. ↗

— Deborah Cox

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To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind. ↗

— George Crabbe

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Never trust a man who teaches about death but yet had no real experience at all about it. ↗

— Toba Beta

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The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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