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Experience Quotes
"Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality."
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"Ive learnt the most about myself through the people and places i no longer visit, such an ironic exprience.The greatest lessons are from those we give the keys of our hearts to & trust all too easily; realising later on, they are just apart of this grande' story and not everyone gets to make it to the end chapter & happy ever after."
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"The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have."
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"Looking back at the years I spent in the asylums, I'm now convinced some of that insanity rubbed off onto me!"
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"Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!"
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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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"Sandwich outdoors isn't a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite."
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"Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known."
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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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"Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance."
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"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb."
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"Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did."
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"It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true."
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"This is a bitter adventure, if it must end so; and not a mountain of gold can amend it. Yet I am glad that I have shared in your perils -- that has been more than any baggins deserves."
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"What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children."
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"As Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a many-headed sea snake, grinding, waving their arms, stamping their feet, jumping. No rules, just energy - so much energy, you could harness it; I bet you could power Portland for a decade. It is more than a wave. It's a tide, an ocean of bodies."
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"Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs."
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"Fear hadn't come to him yet. Pain hadn't come where pain would come. There was only the feeling of having done something perfect at last-the taste of a drink from a cold, pure spring."
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"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
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"I've been an inmate in Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth. I was one of 'them'. I was once Britain's most unstable madman! This book is a complete one off! If you're a nervous type of reader then don't read it. You've been warned! You are now entering the world of insanity; please keep hold of your sanity until the book comes to a stop!"
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"Listen to learn. Learn to earn!"
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"Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety."
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"There is neither mistake nor failures. It is only experience."
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"No one's ever really ready for a troll."
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"You've probably heard it before-if not, you've likely experienced it yourself."
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
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"A person's practical experience can attribute him or her to teach his or her fellow learners the value of real life responsibilities and its consequences."
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"I feel like I'm going to HURL. Which, even if I wanted to do, I couldn't do, because I haven't eaten. I can't even drag myself out of my room. And while I'd be able to muster the strength to roundhouse Fang until he begged for MERCY, I'de be mush around an Eraser."
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"Our knowledge of life is limited to death."
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"Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches."
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"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
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"My experience of chaotic lessons has humbled me enough to know, I could have it worse than I do I now and positive enough to know I can be where I want to be, someday."
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"Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job."
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"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."
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"We are strengthening by different experiences in life;Sad times, happy moments. Poverty, riches. Failure, success. Troubles, good times. Losing, winning."
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"God, don't laugh!" Jamie said, alarmed. "I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here!"
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"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
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"Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are designed to allow us to embark upon a grand journey without ever leaving the armchair. However, real journeys are absent of furniture."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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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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"War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men."
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"Many writers write because they've been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers."
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"There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source."
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"When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences--their insignificant, everyday experiences--so that they become an arable soil that bears fruit three times a year, while others--and how many there are!--are driven through surging waves of destiny, the most multifarious currents of the times and the nations, and yet always remain on top, bobbing like a cork, then we are in the end tempted to divide mankind into a minority (a minimality) of those who know how to make much of little, and a majority of those who know how to make little of much."
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