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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it...

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Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the jo...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by t...

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True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like...

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My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became...

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I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, ...

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I was born into a town and a family and the town ad my family happened to me. I own none of it. It i...

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Dave EggersA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Recordings aren't time sensitive. You can hear the music you want whether it's morning, noon, or the...

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I am apt, however, to entertain a Suspicion, that the World is still too young to fix any general st...

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Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future a...

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From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ...

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By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to di...

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Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human...

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Have you ever felt love?Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and s...

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There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and a...

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I saw a stop sign, and it occurred to me that just as no one expects a stop sign to stop a car, I sh...

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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds...

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And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams, but I do believ...

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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experien...

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Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...

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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How ...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Experience by itself is not science.

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really need...

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What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.

Strange how few After all's said and done the things that are Of moment.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is Californ...

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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars!

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...

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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...

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She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as sh...

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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life,...

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Every religion in the world has had a subset of devotees who seek a direct, transcendent experience ...

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In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means ...

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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it g...

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Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience, unless they are still up.

I stepped from Plank to PlankSo slow and cautiouslyThe Stars about my Head I felt,About my Feet the ...

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell y...

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I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadn...

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Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of exp...

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Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray used to deliberately hire for inexperience because it brought him...

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The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to t...

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Petnaest srećnih godina su kratke - odgovorih. Petnaest nesrećnih godina su duge i pružaju čoveku mn...

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I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or...

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Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the dispo...

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...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of thi...

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Ernst CassirerAn Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

What is this 'I'? If you analyse it closely you will, I think, find that it is just a little bit mor...

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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...

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Experience has two things to teach: The first is that we must correct a great deal the second that ...

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Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's...

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F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Beautiful and Damned

I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. T...

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A being who, as I grew older, lost imagination, emotion, a type of intelligence, a way of feeling th...

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The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this...

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Fernando PessoaThe Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter ...

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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...

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Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...

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Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...

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Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...

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One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires tha...

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A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract th...

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The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experi...

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I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery ...

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Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as ...

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Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—r...

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The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an e...

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When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards ...

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Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act...

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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the...

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When the image is new, the world is new.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning ...

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We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born...

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We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printe...

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Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

For the rest, she grew used to the life that she was leading - used to the enormous sleepless nights...

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George OrwellA Clergyman's Daughter

Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason...

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