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"Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
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"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."
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"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
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"The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure."
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"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
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"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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"We said, OK. We'll - as long as you take good care of us. And so it was a lot of fun. There was a lot of ups and downs throughout the whole period of time. And it's a very unique experience."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
People

"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."
Faith

"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
God

"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice."
Self

"We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about."
Knowledge

"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle."
History

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
Talent

"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
Habit

"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
Evil

"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
Thought
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