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"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."
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"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."
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"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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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
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"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
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"You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
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"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
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"Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience."
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"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent."
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"The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally."
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"In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry."
Power


"I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me."
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"A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things."
People


"I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly."
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"In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them."
Woman


"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."
Experience


"I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night."
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"The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts."
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