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"To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists."
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"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."

"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."

"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."

"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas."

"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."

"We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience."

"When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play."

"And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are."

"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."
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"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."

"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul."

"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life."

"We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities."

"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."

"We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful."

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."

"Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it."
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