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"Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
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"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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"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."
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"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"
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"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
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"I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me."
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"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."
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"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements."
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"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools."
Money


"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."
Force


"I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death."
Death


"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
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"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues."
War


"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools."
Money


"Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves."
Nature


"The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living."
Competition


"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself."
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"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame."
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