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"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."
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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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"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."

"When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see."

"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."

"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."

"Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world."
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