"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."

Experience, Future, Ideals, Light

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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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"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."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Experience, Learning, Growth, Life

"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."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Experience, Adventure, Memory, Choice, Risk

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Experience, Read, Book, Write, Life

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Experience, Work, Life, Memory

"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."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Experience, Sensation, Contrast, Enjoyment

"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Experience, Love, Youth, Desire, Innocence

"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Experience, Memory, Beauty, Transience, Emotion

"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Experience, Reality, Perception, Life

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Experience, Understanding, Words

"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Experience, Wisdom, Truth, Life, Inspirational

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"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

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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."

"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."

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

"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."

"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."

"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."

"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."

"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."

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"I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country."

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"Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand."

"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."

"I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing."

"I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman."

"Don't hustle old people."

"The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe."

"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves."