#peri

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#democracy #experiment #freedom #human #human freedom

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them. ↗

— Len Deighton

#away #experiences #feel #found #happy

I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience. ↗

— Brooklyn Decker

#education #experience #going #having #i

When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#law #experience

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered. ↗

— Otto Dix

#depths #experience #ghastly #i #life

People usually seek to join a religious system in order to gain the eternal bliss and freedom of the soul. But belonging somewhere; anywhere is not freedom. Free is the wind. You need to become the wind, not wanting to know how and why, but only to experience this quality of freedom that leads to the original “religion”. There the soul is finally ONE and aligned with anything. ↗

— Grigoris Deoudis

#eternal #freedom #people #religiois #soul

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#actually #becomes #choosing #close #experience

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#experience #go #good #i #indignity

I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I love being outside. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#being #collecting #everywhere #experience #exploring

At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war. ↗

— Allen Dulles

#getting #kind #least #need #next