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"Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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Personal Development
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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Personal Development
"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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Personal Development
"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
Fire
"Love doesn't make the word go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
Love
"Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses."
Values
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
Family
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
Experience
"The most efficient labor-saving device is still money."
Money
"What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely."
People
"One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it."
Time
"It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to."
Fear
"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next."
Family
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