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Experience Quotes
"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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"I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints."
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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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"When people say 'If I only knew then what I know now' makes me wonder why they aren't using that wisdom now."
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"Experience is the opposite of education."
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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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"Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present."
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"Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world."
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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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"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."
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"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
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"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
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"I don't think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I'm grateful for being able to have that experience."
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"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."
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"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."
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"It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet."
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"The principle is this: that in everything worth having, even in every pleasure, there is a point of pain and tedium that must be survived, so that the pleasure may revive and endure. The joy of battle comes after the first fear of death; the joy of reading Virgil comes after the bore of learning him; the glow of the seabather comes after the icy shok of the sea bath."
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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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"That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within."
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"Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we're still alone, each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together."
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"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
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"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
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"Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places."
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"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."
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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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"But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience."
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"God is only a great imaginative experience."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Experience is by industry achiev'd,And perfected by the swift course of time."
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"Experience gives the greatest lessons of life."
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"Our senses are often the gateway to our stories."
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"What is written is merely the dregs of experience."
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"...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that to Mouse, just to occupy my thoughts, but he was suffering enough without being forced to endure Dickens, even by proxy."
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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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"While you keep ageing, your experience compensates for your lost brain power."
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"Experience is bitter. But it fruits is sweet like honey."
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"Petnaest srećnih godina su kratke - odgovorih. Petnaest nesrećnih godina su duge i pružaju čoveku mnogo iskustva."
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"I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person's life void of negative experiences."
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"I had a fair idea how it felt to get spanked with a large flat surface, and my rump clenched in sympathy."
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"I didn't think I experimented."
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"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."
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"It is not what we do but how we feel doing what we do that matters."
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"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
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"You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel."
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"The best experiences can't be forced and they come when you least expect it. You don't find misadventure, it finds you."
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"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."
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"The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action."
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"I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements."
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