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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao Zedong
Knowledge
You
Change
Experience
Yourself
Revolution
Must
Eating
Direct
Direct Experience
Take
Part
Know
Genuine
Methods
Taste
Want
Theory
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Daniel Bell
Religion
Experience
People
Organization
Framework
Religious
Direct
Rise
Direct Experience
Crumble
Feel
Institutional
Cults
Up
Begins
Break
Break Up
Which
Theology
Search
Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.
Richard P. Feynman
You
Experience
Clouds
Seen
Nothing
Waves
Scale
About
Direct
Direct Experience
Small
Small Scale
Weights
Particles
Like
Springs
Balls
Very
Behave
Any
Anything
Ever
Things
I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be.
Go Ah-sung
Sad
Family
You
Experience
Sometimes
Losing
Believe
Think
Those
Member
Able
Direct
Direct Experience
Could
Had
Always
How
Real
Roles
Family Member
Being
Certain
Act
Your
Necessary
Imagine
I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood.
Justin Cronin
Experience
Stars
Think
See
Direct
Direct Experience
Drove
Around
Got
Years
Years Ago
Bus
Hollywood
Many
Homes
Extent
I had no direct experience of a relegation scrap, but with Wales, I never had the luxury of being allowed to lose games. I was under pressure to win even the friendlies.
Mark Hughes
Experience
Win
Luxury
Pressure
Lose
Direct
Direct Experience
Never
Had
Allowed
Wales
Scrap
Being
Games
Even
Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.
Michael Pollan
Experience
Writing
Finding
About
Direct
Direct Experience
Always
Been
Very
Anyway
Interested
Places
Stand
Useful
Found
I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.
Richard K. Morgan
Experience
World
Think
About
Direct
Direct Experience
Had
Know
How
Sheltered
Any
Getting
Quite
Anything
Then
Much
Certainly
Works
Twenties
Published
Early
Started
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.
Robert Dallek
War
Fight
Experience
Soil
Our
About
Direct
Direct Experience
Give
Openness
Makes
American
Interesting
Meanings
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