"The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years."

Experience, Years, Youth

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"When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit.And nearly choked to death.It was like fire in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me."Wh...what is this?" I asked, coughing.Viktoria grinned. "Vodka."I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before.""Not Russian vodka."Apparently not."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Experience, Strength, Culture, Surprise

"We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!"

Margaret J. Wheatley, American Writer

Experience, War, Ideas, Blame

"The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded."

Jesse Eisenberg, American Actor

Experience, Acting, Emotions, Environment

"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."

Thomas Malthus, English Economist

Experience, Truth, Knowledge, Will

"Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience."

Benjamin Cardozo, American Judge

Experience, Poor, Prophecy

"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

Richard Thompson, British Musician

Experience, Song, Writer, Writing

"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

Experience, Comedy, Romantic

"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Experience, Past

"Experience really does make you better, man."

Alan Vega, American Musician

Experience, Man

"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

John Updike, American Novelist

Experience, Ecstasy, Existence

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"Justice is the sum of all moral duty."

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"The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind."

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"Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason."

Passion

"Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education."

Education

"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."

Reading

"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."

Argument

"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."

Man

"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."

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"There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination."

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"The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children."

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