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"As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

"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."

"It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests."

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."

"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."

"The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure."

"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."
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"Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace."

"There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back."

"Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far."

"I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it."

"Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace."
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