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

"I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food."

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

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

"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."

"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."

"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."
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