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"As between mileage and experience choose experience."
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"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."
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
"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."
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."
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"For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."
"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking."
"I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation."
"By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one."
"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
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