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"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."
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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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"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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"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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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"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."
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"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
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"Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly."
Corruption
"If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions."
God
"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail."
Cultural
"I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world."
Humor
"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."
Experience
"The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth."
Truth
"English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did."
History
"You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes."
Politics
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