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Samuel Johnson

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

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"I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other realm she had never attained before. She had touched through his act some climate of violence she had never known before."

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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

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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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"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."

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"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

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"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."

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"Any experience can be transformed into something of value."

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"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."

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"To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example."
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"None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again."
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"Clear your mind of "can't.""
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"There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow."
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"Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears."
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"It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote."
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"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen."
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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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"What is easy is seldom excellent."
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