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  • This project in Avesta, Sweden, in which visitors use special flashlights to explore a historic site and reveal interpretative content of interest, is an elegant example of how museums can innovative the label experience.

    Museum 2.0 2009

  • Brigit smiled at the word -- a favourite one with Pensée when persons and events differed from the serene, unreasoned fiction which she called her experience.

    Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange John Oliver Hobbes 1886

  • There is a general agreement among men that experience is the most effective and successful of teachers; that for many men no other form of education is possible; and that those who enjoy the fullest educational opportunities miss the deeper processes of training if they fail of that wide contact with the happenings of life which we call experience.

    Books and Culture Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880

  • Thus at thirty, with ten years acquaintance with men, manners and things, a person _may_ be wiser than another at three times thirty, with seven times ten years of what he calls experience.

    The Young Man's Guide William A. Alcott 1824

  • Synthetical principles could not be derived from mere concepts without intuition; on the contrary, they could only exist with reference to this intuition, and therefore to objects of possible experience, since it is the concepts of the understanding, united with this intuition, which alone make that knowledge possible which we call experience.

    The Critique of Practical Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

  • They also confirmed that the culture needs to weave self-care into the organizational DNA - what we call the experience.

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

  • They also confirmed that the culture needs to weave self-care into the organizational DNA - what we call the experience.

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

  • So May could be a strong month and not be out of step with the intermediate term experience.

    May Looks Strong For Stocks 2010

  • I see a lot of Obama in myself: a young upstart who wants to change the world but has no long term experience.

    The Early Word: The Keystone State Divide - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • I think you are right about Hauerwas's suspicion about the word experience.

    Deep Furrows Fred 2007

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