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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Clever Confidence Experience Female Human Human Experience Notion Trick

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Anything Book Bring Experience History Like Novel Own Read Reading Terms World You Your Yourself

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It is important to realize that the process of 'fostering' a passion takes trial and error. It takes experience; you cannot do it all in your head. And it takes a long time.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Cannot Error Experience Fostering Head Important Long Long Time Passion Process Realize Takes Time Trial Trial And Error You Your

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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.

~Angela Duckworth

Topics: Become Call Dependable Deteriorate Experience Eyesight Fits Hips Impulsive Kinder Knees Less Life Life Experience Maturity Moody More My Own Our Own Principle Psychologists T

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Growing up in Mississippi - a state that historically was a place of racial injustice, inequality and oppression - gave me the unique opportunity to experience first-hand the evolution of the civil rights movement through the eyes of my parents, grandparents, and the black elders of our community.

~Angela Mcglowan

Topics: Black Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Community Elders Evolution Experience Eyes Gave Grandparents Growing Growing Up Historically Inequality Injustice Me Mississippi Movement Opportunity Oppression Our Our Community Parents Place Racial Rights Rights Movement State Through Unique Up

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To grow up in the neighborhood of handicapped people was an important experience for me. I learned back then to treat them in a very normal way.

~Angela Merkel

Topics: Back Experience Grow Grow Up Handicapped Important Learned Me Neighborhood Normal People Them Then Treat Up Very Way

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From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

~Angela Merkel

Topics: Big Controversial Discussions Experience Health Important Issues Learned Necessary Often Opposition Party Policy System While

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We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles will in the end prevail. No one knew how the Cold War would end at the time, but it did end. This is within our living experience... I'm surprised at how fainthearted we sometimes are and how quickly we lose courage.

~Angela Merkel

Topics: Always Cold Cold War Convinced Courage Did End Experience Had How In The End Knew Living Long Lose Our Prevail Principles Quickly Sometimes Surprised Take Things Time War Will Within Would

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I never had a moment of realization about my blackness - I just was. Blackness was a central thread of my experience as a child and as an adolescent, as it is now that I'm an adult.

~Angela Rye

Topics: About Adolescent Adult Blackness Central Child Experience Had Just Moment Never Now Realization Thread

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I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn't find it a sacrifice, and I didn't find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

~Angelina Jolie

Topics: Body Experience Fascinating Find Found Had Miracle Painful Sacrifice

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