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"Science is the systematic classification of experience."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."

"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."

"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."

"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."

"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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"The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions."

"Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols."

"Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed."

"All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand."

"The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised."

"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."

"Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art."
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