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John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."

Jeffrey Fry, American Author

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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."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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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."

John Burns, English Activist

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"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."

Andrew Cohen, American Writer

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"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."

Anne Sullivan Macy, American Educator

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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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"I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book."

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"I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time."

"Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed."

"I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues."

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