"Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience."

-- D.T. Suzuki

#Ideas Quotes #Experience Quotes

“Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!”

Source : "In a strange Land". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
“We've got very few bodies right now so we were tired, but we've also got a lot of character and we want to win.”
“...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery...”
“The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.”
“Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me. The stuff I find very interesting is why certain physical things have come about. How can he be light on his feet when he is so big? How can his weight vary so much? Where does this rather beautiful voice come from?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.”
“The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.”

Source : 1931 Speech,18 Mar. Rudyard Kipling, Baldwin's cousin, is alleged to be the original author of this famous phrase. Harold Macmillan claimed that the Duke of Devonshire (his father-in-law) responded 'Good God, that's done it, he's lost us the tarts.'
“The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.”

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