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"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
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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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Personal Development
"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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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
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills."
Blood
"Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air."
Ability
"To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible."
Gender
"Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back."
Car
"Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously."
Ability
"Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?"
Money
"He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone."
Man
"Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done."
Leadership
"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
Experience
"Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty."
Duty
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