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"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
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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."

"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."

"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."

"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."

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

"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."

"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."

"My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue."
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"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."


"In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known."


"The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased."


"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."


"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."


"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes."


"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
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