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

Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by k...

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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each...

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But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Thro...

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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every ex...

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How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understa...

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As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man ...

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Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

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Oscar WildeLady Windermere's Fan

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

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Oscar WildeLady Windermere's Fan

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that ex...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

As chemists, we must rename [our] scheme and insert the symbols Ba, La, Ce in place of Ra, Ac, Th. A...

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The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens ...

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Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

You see, the catch about portrait painting—I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't start...

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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islami...

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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to thin...

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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience.

I want to experience as many different tastes, sights, emotions, conflicts, and cultures as possible...

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Patton OswaltZombie Spaceship Wasteland

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topogr...

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Paul TherouxThe Best American Travel Writing 2001

Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bot...

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Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should...

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People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

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Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

For a merely conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth...

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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is form...

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Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works...

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It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to exper...

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I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, l...

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We cannot see Beauty till we let go our hold of it. It was Buddha who conquered the world, not Alexa...

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...our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse...To transform a c...

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Radhanath SwamiThe Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami

We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terr...

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Whoever you are, go out into the evening,leaving your room, of which you know every bit;your house i...

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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themsel...

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most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip o...

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only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incompre...

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Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only...

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a st...

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Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

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Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most val...

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Randy PauschThe Last Lecture

Or we'll go that way. Or we'll walk on the highways now, and we'll have time to putthings into ourse...

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Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not...

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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is ...

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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is ...

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Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the god...

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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's...

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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is ...

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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is ...

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For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that ...

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Richard CourantWhat Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the stu...

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Richard HammingThe Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

As a filmmaker, deep blacks are essential, and in my experience, no technology captures those attrib...

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

I'm sorry There are some jokes you cannot understand until you have been a fool many, many years and...

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Robert Anton WilsonThe Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he h...

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How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

We must go on, because we can't turn back.

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-scho...

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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are readin...

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I learned that ruling poor men's hands is nothing. Ruling men's money's a wedge in the world. But af...

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Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in...

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You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...

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Roland BarthesA Lover's Discourse: Fragments

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...

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Roland BarthesA Lover's Discourse: Fragments

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfil...

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When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-alt...

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The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The sel...

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Rudolf CarnapThe Logical Structure of the World and Pseudoproblems in Philosophy

Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verific...

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Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements...

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God help us for we knew the worst too young.

The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and t...

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America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of ...

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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you b...

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Salman RushdieImaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

It would not be too strong to say that I felt sane for the first time in my life. And yet the change...

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Sam HarrisWaking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

There is nothing passive about mindfulness. One might even say that it expresses a specific kind of ...

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Sam HarrisWaking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and...

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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.