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"Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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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."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Everything in the world exists to end up in a book."
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"Error is always more busy than truth."
Truth
"Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic."
Life
"Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness."
Happiness
"No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work."
Business
"The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important."
People
"There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals."
World
"Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains."
Energy
"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."
Truth
"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."
Education
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