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• Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose… — James Cameron
• Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact… — Wendell Berry
• The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but… — Carl Sagan
• Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of… — Rudolf Carnap
• How soon will you realize that the only thing you don't have is the direct experience that there's nothing you need that… — Ken Keyes Jr.
• One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God. — Carl Jung
• To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It… — Ansel Adams
• Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination. — Fernando Pessoa
• To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really… — Mark Epstein
• The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw… — Noah Levine
• Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. — A. R. Ammons
• What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it,… — Robert Dallek

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