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"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."
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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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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"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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"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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"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."
Survival
"Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties."
Boss
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible."
People
"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
Computer
"A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself."
Humor
"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools."
Fool
"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."
Paradise
"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
Wisdom
"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
Friendship
"There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware."
Being
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