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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana

Experience, Children, Parents

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
Roger Ebert

Experience, Car, Forget

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Albert Bandura

Experience, Reality, Actions

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.
Lee Child

Pleasure, Key, Thrillers

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.
Todd Phillips

Movies, Thrill, Escapism

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
Mother Jones

Career, Learned, Others

Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
David Boies

Music, Sharing, Activity

The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.
Virchand Gandhi

Nature, God, Angry

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