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“Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be prepared to make whatever sacrifices are demanded as we pursue this path to its end.”

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

English biography, 120-180 words more

“An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.”

Ends Earth Form Science Building Highest Following Invention Iron Lightning Roof Crooked Affording

Book:Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin

Source: Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin

“I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'”

Stills I Can Self Shows Problem Stars Nice Rocks Self Esteem Television Proud Dad Esteem Hey Rock Star Doing Good Television Shows Your Dad Proud Of You Melissa

Author:Melissa Etheridge

“To describe the animate life of particular things is simply the most precise and parsimonious way to articulate the things as we spontaneously experience them, prior to all our conceptualizations and definitions.”

Way Particular Experience Definitions Precise Conceptualization

Book:The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World

Source: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World

“If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon as an active, animate entity with which we find ourselves engaged. To the sensing body, no thing presents itself as utterly passive or inert. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.”

Ifs World Body Hands Wish Particular Direct Experience Depth Active Engaged Phenomenon Passive Entity Ongoing Our Words Reciprocity Affirming Sensing

Author:David Abram

“You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things.”

Mean Ideas Real Used Emotion Civilization Experience Symbols Conventions Abstraction Electrical Vicarious

Author:Jack Vance

“You can either ask the question or experience the answer.”

Asks Answers Experience

Author:Kalki Bhagavan

“People are experience-rich and theory-poor.”

People Poor Rich Theory Experience

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Pure love is who you are! When you express pure love, you give yourself the direct experience of who you are. It is the greatest gift! It looks as if your giving a gift to others, and you are giving it to yourself, that is because there is no one else in the room, it only looks as if there is.”

Ifs Giving Looks Love Is Rooms Love You Pure Direct Experience Who You Are Greatest Gifts Pure Love

Book:Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Source: Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

“What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.”

Years Today Years Ago Experience Exploration Sanity Platforms Mystical Mystical Experiences

Book:The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World

Source: The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World

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