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"I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school."
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"There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source."
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
"No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot."
"I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained."
"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."
"Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again."
"Experience is by industry achiev'd,And perfected by the swift course of time."
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
"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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"Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter."
"Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."
"The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance."
"Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring."
"We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other."
"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."
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