The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer meditation and forgiveness.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened ambition inspired and success achieved.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings if not with what I went through to learn.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

Man learns through experience and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption fraternity in consumption and freedom through consumption.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law and equality not separation was written into the law.

No advance in wealth no softening of manners no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade through high school.

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly not only will you get better environmental outcomes you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient and in an immediate sense that's true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

God has cared for these trees saved them from drought disease avalanches and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

The complaint of bad pay and difficulty in obtaining it is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities mentor and tutor students and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.