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" In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say. "

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" The years teach much which the days never know. "

" We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. "

" The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human. "

" If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. "

" The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. "

" I live to leave somebody with a positive experience when they've met me, and make someone smile for the day. "

" 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. "

" Hits and flops will come and go. But what stays with you is the experience you had while shooting a film. I am happy learning something new each time. "

" Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure. "

" In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity. "

" Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder. "

" Are we blasphemous in saying that 2-D is largely a thing of the past, and computer-generated animation is the present and future? It's all about creating a better experience for the viewer - and that includes 3-D. "

" I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. "

" The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. "

" I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. "

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" 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. "

" It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment, and to appreciate the natural riches there first-hand. "

" The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience. "

" We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. "

" If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow. "

" To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. "

" With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. "

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Should

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" He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. "

" What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. "

" Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. "

" Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. "

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" A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. "