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"Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal."
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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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Personal Development
"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."
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"The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon."
Criticism
"In life, as in chess, forethought wins."
Life
"Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows."
Success
"You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
Time
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."
Time
"The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that."
Children
"Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal."
Experience
"Silence is sometimes the severest criticism."
Criticism
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