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" Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. "
T. S. Eliot
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" There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. "
T. S. Eliot
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" Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!' "
Anne Frank
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Experience
Know
" I think there's a lot of learning process in figuring out what things you want to do and shouldn't do. Maturing in that way is something that comes with experience and time. "
Matt Harvey
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" The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. "
Silvio Berlusconi
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" Every Christian who strives for holiness of life experiences dryness of soul. It is to most people a heart-rending experience. It is a paradox, for the soul becomes confused when it realizes the harder it strives the further away Jesus seems to be. "
Mother Angelica
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" I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first. "
Dawn French
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" The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. "
T. S. Eliot
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The Most Important
Possible
" My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn. "
Ally Sheedy
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" The experience I don't want to see repeated occurred in 'Bush v. Gore.' The Court divided five to four. There were four separate dissents, and that confused the press. In fact, some of the reporters announced that the decision was seven-two. There was no time to get together. "
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Together
" While all old people have been young, no young people have been old, and this troubling fact engenders the frustration of all parents and elders, which is that while you can describe your experience, you cannot confer it. "
Andrew Solomon
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" When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling. "
Karen Horney
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Long
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" With any movie that gets remade, whether I like the remake or not, I'm glad that I can still go watch the original that I love. If the remake is offering something different, I really value that because I'm having a new experience and adding something new to my life. "
David Lowery
My Life
Life
Experience
" Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. "
Heinrich Heine
Good
Fees
School
" Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. "
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Living
Memory
Generation
" If you focus on producing a great experience for anyone, that's how you get big. "
Kevin Systrom
You
Big
Great
" One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult. "
Roy Romer
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Impossible
" Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen. "
Richard P. Feynman
You
Waves
Clouds
" But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. "
Muhammad Iqbal
Source
Knowledge
Human
" One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. "
Gail Godwin
Who
People
Appreciate
" Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience. It always comes with a sense of loss and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time. "
W. G. Sebald
Experience
Loss
Time
" I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. "
Audrey Hepburn
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" I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. "
Eric Clapton
Father
Wisdom
Music
" Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. "
Jack Kingston
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Wife
Love
" Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. "
T. S. Eliot
Important
World
Done
" Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. "
T. S. Eliot
Poetry
Mature
Immature
" I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too! "
William Shakespeare
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" Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. "
Stephen Fry
Tree
Garden
Insult
" The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself. "
T. S. Eliot
Far
Soul
Only
" It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. "
Ram Dass
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Experience
Negative
" There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things. "
Gary Gygax
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