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Experience Quotes
"Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values."
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"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."
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"Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there's another side to the coin, and you can't remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important-creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could."
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"I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life."
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"During such a competition players are there for a long time as well as all the people around them. They need to train, to eat, to go out. There ought to be something in it for everyone. On that particular point, my experience has been a bonus."
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"The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience."
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"Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."
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"For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years."
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"Surfing soothes me, it's always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when I'm on a wave."
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"Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take."
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"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."
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"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency."
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"Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture."
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"During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned."
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"It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases."
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"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it."
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"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
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"Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players."
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"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."
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"African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college."
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"Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
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"The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde."
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"The reward of suffering is experience."
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"This girl wanted me to experience something I'd never experienced. She tried three times to get me high. Finally it worked, and I had the most incredible sex I'd ever had."
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"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
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"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"
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"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
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"Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process."
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"You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is."
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"The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far."
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"I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience."
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"However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions."
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"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."
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"Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?"
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"I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime."
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"She is up there with the best of them. I can only talk about my experience, but it was genuinely special."
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"In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy."
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"I believe sanity and realism can be restored to the teaching of Mathematical Statistics most easily and directly by entrusting such teaching largely to men and women who have had personal experience of research in the Natural Sciences."
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"Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political."
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"Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions."
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"Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience."
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"I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities."
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"To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed."
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"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."
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"I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions."
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"As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear."
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"It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience."
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