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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
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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."
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
"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."
"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."
"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."
"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."
"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."
"The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue."
"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't."
"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."
"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
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