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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."
"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
"Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"
"I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive."
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"The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism."
"As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it."
"My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics."
"Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives."
"There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life."
"The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers."
"The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy."
"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best."
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