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The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. ↗

— George Santayana

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Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us. ↗

— David Sarnoff

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Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

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I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold. ↗

— Billy Joe Saunders

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If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience. ↗

— George Saunders

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